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WHOLE No. 115.

SCHOOLCRAFT, MICH., JUNE 1, 1881.

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INDEX TO THIS NUMBER.

Progress—Two Pictures-— Wool—Directions for ship-
ping wool-—A Visit—Cro%s and Legislators—Meet-
ing of the Societyfor the romotion of Agricultural
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . l

Pickings by the Way, No. 28-— Stephen A. Douglass
Said. .—Gaining—Still Growing-Wool-—-Furnish
Your Boys with Tools—Don’t Neglect the Grange
Meetings——The Gates Ajar,. . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Beautiful Homes for Farmers — Michigan Horticul-
tural Societ — Summer Meeting at Benton Harbor
-Railroad ompanies——-A Great Monopoly——Cen-
sus Items——Dairy Products, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

A Half-Day at the Capitol-Three Months’ Subscrib-
ers-——The Commissioner of Agriculture—Mulching.
“A Noteworthy Change of a Prominent Commis-
sion House ”--Important Meeting-—Adulteration
of Food—Notice of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4

The Anti-Monopoly Meeting——-From a New Grange
—- Pla.ster—Crops—-Secretaries’ Work — Interesting
Notice—Fairﬁeld Grauge—Lenawee Bomona —_- The
Work in Colon G-range—An Invitation —— Science,
Literature and Art—Ventilate your Hoines,. . . . 5

My Books— Woinan’s Rights —- The Grange -— In-
fluence of the Grange—Flowers, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

A Lesson for Mamma —This Department —FU1‘
Favors Received — Oleomargarine —_ The Baby
Preacher —The Reaper Death— Railroad Time;

Tables — Advertisements, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . l
Ex-Prisoners of War and Veteran Soldiers—To the
Patrons of Michigan-—Advertiseinents, . . . . . . . .. 8

Officers National Grange.

MABTEB—J. J. WOODMAN, (Paw Paw) Michigan.

0VERsEmz—PUT. DARDEN. - - Mississippi.
Lac'ruana—HENRY ESHBAUGH, - Missouri.
S'rEwA.BD—A. J. VAUGHN, - Mississippi.
Assr. STEWABD—WlLLIAM SIMS, - Kansas
Cn.u>muN—S. H. ELLIS, - - - Ohio.
TBEASU'B.EB—F. M. MCDOWELL, - New York.

SECnETARY—WM. M. IRELAND, Washington, D.C.

GATE-KEEPER-0. DINWIDDIE, - Indiana.
Cnans—MRS. J. J. WOODMAN, - Michigan.
Poirozu—MRS.‘PUT. DARDEN, - Mississippi-

FLOBA—MRS. I. W. NICHOLSON, - New Jersey.
Lsnr Assr. Srnwsnn—MBS. WM. SIMS, Kansas.

Executive committee-

D. WYATT AIKEN, - - South Carolina.
I-I, JAMES, - - - - Indiana.
W.,G. WAYNE, - - - New York.

Officers Mlchlgan state Grange.

M.—C. G. LUCE, - - - Gilead.
O.—A. N. WOODRUFF,’ - - Watervliat.
L.—C. L. WHITNEY, - - - Muskegon.
S.—S. A. TOOKER, - - - - Lansing.
A. S.—A.. E. GREEN, - - Farmington.

C.—SALMON STEEL, - Manton, Wexford Co.

T.—S. F. BROWN, - - - Schoolci-aft.
8nc.—J. T. COBB, - - - Schoolcraft.
G. K.—ELIJAH BARTLETT, - - Dryden.
Caaxs.—Mns. A. S. STANNARD, - - Lowell.
PoMoiu.—Mns. H. D. PLATT, - - Ypsilanti.
FLoiu.—Mns. A N. WOODBUFF, Watervliet.
L. A. S.—Mae. A. E. GREEN, - Farmington.

Executive committee-

THOMAS MARS, Chairman, - Berrien Center.
J. WEBSTER CHILDS, - - Ypsilanti.
F. M. HOLLOWAY, - - - I-Iillsdale.

J. Q. A. BURRINGTON, - - Tnscola.
WM. SATTERLEE, - - Birmingham.
THOS. F. MOORE, - - - - Adrian.
JOHN PORTER. - - Grand Rapids.
0. G. LUCE, J. T. COBB, - - Ex-oﬁicio.
General Deputy. ‘
0. L. WHITNEY, - - - Muskegon.
state Business Agent.
THOMAS MASON, - - Chicago, 111.

Special Lecturers.

.  . ..Adri.an, Lenawee Co.
. . . . Shelby, Oceans Co.
M. L. Stevens,..;. erry, Shiawassee Co.

 
Mrs. 8. Steele, .Manton, Wexford Co. -
L. B. Brown, Rawsonvills, Wayne 00.
Andrew Cainpbe psilanti, Washtenaw Co.
Chen. R. Miokley. ...... ..Adi-ian, Lenawee Co.

BINTED BY KALAMAZOO PUBLISHING
P 00;, Pam-rnas AND PUBLISHERS, Kalamazoo.

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PROGRESS.
Steadily, steadily, step by step,
Up the ventursome builders go ;
Carefully placing stone on stone:
Thus the loftiest temples grow.

Patiently, patiently, day by day,

The artist toils at his task alwayz
Touching it here and tinting it there,
Giving it ever with inﬁnite care

A line more soft or a hue more fair;
Till, little by little, the picture grows,
And at last the cold, dull canvass glows
With life and beauty and forms of grace
That everinore in the world have place.

Thus with the poet: hour after hour

He listens to catch the fairy charms _

That ring in his soul ; then, with magic power,
He weaves their melody into his rhymes :
Slowly, carefully, word by word,

Line by line and thought by thought,

He fashions the golden tissue of song-

And thus are immortal anthems wrought.

Every wise observer knows,

Every watchful gazer sees

That nothing grand or beautiful grows,
Save by gradual, slow degrees.

Ye who toil with a purpose high

And fondly the proud result await,
Murmur not, as the hours go by,

That the season is long, the harvest is late.

Remember that brotherhood, strong and true,-

Builders and artists, and bards sublime-

Who lived in the past and worked like you,

Worked and waited a wearisome time.

Dark and cheerless and long their night,

Yet they patiently toiled at their task begun, _

Till, lo ! thro’ the clouds broke that morning light,

VVhich shines on the soul when success is won.
—The Quiver.

 
TWO PICTURES.
MARIAN novensss.
An old farm-house, with meadows wide,
And sweet with clover on each side;
A bright-eyed boy, who looks from out
The door with Woodbine wreathed about,
And wishes his one thought all the day :
“ Oh! if I could but ﬂy away
From this dull spot the world to see,

How happy. kappa happy.
How happy I should be ! ”

Amid the city’s constant din,

A man, who round the world has been,

Who, ’mid the tumult and the throng,

ls thinking. thinking all day long :

“ Oh ! could I only tread once more

The ﬁeld-path to the farm—house door ;

The old green meadows could I see,

How happy, happy, happy,
How happy I should be I ”

Wool.

During the present month the wool clip
of Michigan will be ready for the market,
and prices. satisfactory or otherwise, will
be determined upon. That wool will rule
lower than last year seems certain. The
stock of old wool seems to be ample for the
wants of the manufacturers, except it be of
ﬁne ﬂeeces,which seem a. little short ; but of
long combing wools the supply is larger
than for several years. The estimate of the
seaeon’s clip is ..5,000,000 lbs. in excess of last
year, making 275,000,000 lbs. as the product
of the United States. There is some foreign
wool in the market now, but prices abroad
are still too high to show any proﬁt on fur-
ther importations. All advices indicate
that prices for wool are as low as they are
likely to go for the season. Fenno & Man-
ning report 37 to 42 cents as a likely range
for the season in Boston for good, washed
Michigan wool. '

Speculation in wool is always unhealthy; it
holds the product above the views of manu-
facturers and restricts consumption. An un-
due quantity is often carried over to depress
the price of the new clip, and tends to un-
settle values. Manufacturers can sell their
product only at prices suited to the wants of
their customers. If they can purchase
wool at rates that will warrant a margin,
the consumption of domestic wool is con-
stantly going on, and all will be absorbed by
the general demand for goods. On the other
hand, if wool is held above the market
values for goods, manufacturing is curtailed
and the distribution of seasonable goods
limited. A cent or two on a pound of wool
above the market checks trade and is a dam-
age to all concerned. A large part of the
wool purchased by dealers through the
country are held for a ﬁxed price, until
holding seems hazardous, or a satisfactory
sale is made. If the holding does not prove
to have been wise and sales are forced, the
whole business is demoralized and it takes a
year or two more to settle down to a ﬁrm
basis. It is in the interest of the farmer or

wool grower that prices should remain

nearly uniform for the year, or for a period
of years. A good ﬂock of sheep cannot be

grown inayear or two“? and the idea that
sheep may become worthless by the time
that the ﬂock is graded up to an ideal stand-
ard deters many from improving their

I ﬂocks, who otherwise would strive to in-

crease their value by judicious selection and
crossing.

The danger of over-production of wool
is not serious. In the settled wool produc-
ing States ﬂocks cannot be largely increased;
many ﬂocks are now too large and must be
distributed to thosejust beginning, or be fed
for the market. Some increase will proba-
bly he had on the western plains, but the vi-
cissitudes of the climate, and the diseases
and disturbances attending large ﬂocks will
prevent an increase so large as to affect ma-
terially the market for wool, so that the con-
sumptive demand will very probably bal-
ance the increase in production.

Within the past few years the manner of
handling wool has greatly changed. But a
very small part of any of the wool passes
directly from the grower to the manufactur-
er. It first passes through the hands of an
expert in awool house, who grades it. Each
grade is then kept by itself, and the manu-
facturer orders from such a grade as is suited
to thequality of goods under contract. The
manufacturer is not an expert in sorting
wool, and there is no occasion for his being
such, for he can buy from the wool house
any certain number of pounds wanted of
such a character as his needs require. It is
not necessary for him to attend personally
to the purchase. I-Ie orders by letter or tele-
gram the amount and quality needed, and
no more is held than is wanted for immedi-
ate use.

A healthy condition of 'the market can
only be kept up when all the wool is for sale
at current rates, thg commission man stand-
ing between the owner and purchaser to pre-
vent any unfairness in the deal. It will be
seen that whoever sends wool to market,
however large or small the quantity, it must
all go through the same process and pay the
same charges, so that the individual farmer
can send his wool to market or he can give
some lounger from three to five cents per
pound for doing it for him.

Handling wool at the manufacturer’s end
of the route is now much simpliﬁed and
brought to a sensible business basis. VVhen
the individual farmer sends his own wool to
be sold on its own merits, as it must be sold
at last by whomsover sent, then will wool
speculation cease and a healthy condition of
the market he sustained.

 
Directions for Shipping Wool.

Order sacks from H. Shipman, Grand
Ledge. Sacks can be made to hold 300
ibs., but as farmers will usually pack it, they
will get in about 270 lbs. Mark distinctly
the number of pounds on each sack, with
owner’s name or initials, and forward by
mail the names of those shipping, the num-
ber of sacks from each, with the number of
pounds in each. Get as many to ship as
possible and forward in Great Eastern care
over the Grand Trunk railroad.

Do not fail to order sacks at once, as there
may be delay in getting them when the pinch
comes.

We shipped seventeen sacks May 26, from
farmers in our vicinity, mostly unwashed
wool, all to Fenno & Manning.

 
Broad Wagon Tires.

We give below the experience and state-
ments of one who has given broad wagon
tires a thorough trial. It is something that
commends itself to Michigan farmers par-
ticularly. Narrow tires have come to us
from the hard, rocky roads of New Eng-
land. and are as much out of place as their
side hill plows would‘ be on our level farms.

Gravel roads are becoming a necessity, as
well as a convenience. W'ith broad tires on
all our wagons the repairs would be lessened
one-half, and hauling loads over sandy
roads be more tolerable.

Those intending to purchase new wagons
should insist on having broad tires, and re-
pairs to old ones should be in the same di-
rection. It is a revolution in the interest of
common sense, and those who prefer to con-

tinue the use of narrow tires when a new
wagon is to be purchased will do so because

their fathers used them and for no better

versal use, as they surely will, people will
wonder how sensible men could so long
have continued the use of narrow tires
through ruts and over plowed ﬁelds. The
objection to top dressing summer fallow is
thatit difﬂcult to haul the manure on the
soft ground. Broad tires relieve this dim-
culty. The reasons for the use of broad
tires are so numerous, and objections to their
use so hard to ﬁnd, that the old must give
place to the new. Read carefully the fol-
lowing:

I am glad to see your paper speak on the
subject of broad-tired wagons. I offer brief-
ly my experience, which will answer some
questions asked by your correspondents.
We keep in repair a road three—fourths of a
mile long, over which we haul 30,000 tons
yearly, besides a small amount of public
travel. \Vhile we used narrow tired wag-
ons our repairs cost us $100 annually, and
the road was bad fall and spring. The loads
then weighed one and a half to two tone.
Since we changed to broad tires we haul
two to three tons with the same case and
the same expense for the trip, and the road
is never bad, not in the worst weather,
and the cost of keeping it in repair is never
over $10 yearly.

Our narrow tired wagons had an average
life of two or three years. Our broad tired
wagons have run three years and show no
signs of failure, although they have iron
axles and are specially strong and heavy.
VVe can haul loads over meadows and lawns
without doing damage at any season. In
hauling loads over plowed ground, We can
haul more than double the load we used to
with the narrow tires.

If a new wagon is needed it is best to
have it made heavy and strong, as well as
broad tires; and. while it costs say double
the old style. it will save to the owner, by
carrying double the load and not injuring
road or farm, the extra cost each year. Our
tires are three-inch, which on moderately,
well drained land is broad enough; four-
inch tires are only needed on very sandy
or very muddy bottoms.

The best way to-ﬁt up an old wagon is to
get new wheels throughout, even if the
wagon is old, for they will do for a new one
when the old one is gone. 'l‘o simply put
broad felloes and tires onto old wheels is not
to increase the general strength of the wag-
on, and the owner fails to get the strength
necessary for the doubly heavy load which
his team can easily haul on the broad-tires.

Iam also one owner of a sawmill in a
neighboring State. Last year we bought
sets of new broad-lire wheels, and put on
our old wagons to haul our lumber over the
three miles of sandy road lying between the
mill and wharf. The result was that while
we paid by the trip, one team took 900 feet
of green lumber instead of 600, at the same
price, and just as easy, and kept the road in
such good condition that the repairs cost
almost nothing. The saving to us on each
wagon per month was $11.25, which would
very soon pay for the wheels.

I would not advise reducing the size of
the wheels, for the larger the wheel the
easier it surmounts an obstacle. One who
has n tried it can hardly believe how
heavy a load a team will haul on a broad-
tire wagon. \Ve have hauled on agood dirt
road, already worn smooth with broad-tires,
and having several rather easy grades, a
steam boiler weighing ﬁve tons with a sin-
gle team weighing 2,700, on one of our
heavy iron axletiee, broad-tire wagons
(tires, three inch). Such a load could not be
moved on an ordinary wagon at all.

Now as to cost. The wagon I speak of
has two and three-fourth inch arms, and
weighs with box 1,360 pounds, and cost in
a common wagon maker's shop $135. It
will last twenty ﬁve years if kept painted
and sheltered, though in constant use. It
would last the ordinary farmer forty years,
or an ordinary life-time. Three years’ use
of three or four of these wagons has not cost
us any thing for repairs save painting.
They are too strong to break. Once again
tofarmers: Buy new wheels very strong
and heavy, with little or no dish ; put them
on your old wagons, and you will never buy
an more wagon wheels as long as you live.
When your old wagon wears out have one
made twice as strong and put these wheels
on it and you will never live to see it
worn out if properly cared for. If you are
to buy a new wagon here are the sizes:
Take iron axles by all means, with 2% to 2:}
arms, 2; inch spokes, 3 to 4 inch tire; bent
felloes, -2; inch narrower than tire; hind
wheels only ‘four inches higher than fore
wheels. On this wagon a good 2,400-pound
team on a fair road will handle easily two
or three tons for long distances, if no steep
hills, and you may venture four tons for
short hauls. The wagon itself will weigh
from 1,300 to 1,500 pounds, but your team
will never feel the extra weight, for it moves
on the surface andnot from one to four
inches deep in mud.

The reason why so much heavier load can
be hauled on broad tires is not alone because
the tires do not cut down ; there is another
advantage equally great: Look at any old
narrow tire and you will see that in wearing
oﬁ' at the corners it has acquired a round sur-
face, as thou h made of half~round iron.
Now when t e wheel approaches a rut it
tends toslide in and tips the, wheel on the
the axle, causing friction at the end of the
axle, and not on its whole length, which
makes it turn very hard. You will always

reason. When broad tires come into uni-

notice your team pulling harder when your

wheels are trying to slide into a rut and can’t
get there. A broad tire always has enough
flat surface even when well worn, to stand up
square and lure evenly on the arm. The
use of broad-tires in cities I need not
speak of as they they are now so com-
mon that every one can see the demonstra-
tion. I would agree to furnish all the wag-
ons for any city or State, free of cost, if I
could be guaranteed the amount of money
saved in repairing streets and the extra
price of the greater weight hauled at each
load by using broad tires, and would pay a
round sum for the monopoly. ——1l[endota
Correspondence of the Chicago Tribune.

dummitnitaiiuna.

A Visit.

CAMBRIA, May 18, 1881.

Worthy Secretary.-—In looking over the
VISITOR of May 1st, I expected to see some
allusion made by the Master of Cambria
Gr go to a visit of some of the Patrons of
sai Grange to VVoodbrldge Grange on the
evening of April 13,but did not. Happening
to be one of the visitors, I incline to speak
of it.

To say that we had a pleasant time would
be expressing our feelings in very mild
terms. The cordial greeting that we met
with from these comparative strangers was
like the ripe fruits of tried friends. VVe
enjoyed the visit so much that we shall be
likely to accept their next kind invitation
to come again.

But we almost fearif we were to follow
the dictates of our hearts they would think
we had movedintotheirjurisdiction. We
witnessed the conferring of the 4th degree
on eleven candidates, all oﬂlcers doing their
part with credit to themselves. I congrat-
ulate them upon securing so eﬂflcient a
Master. VVhen the degree work was com-
plete, recees was declared. And in the
midst of our good lime of visiting, another
proclamation went forth, and this time it
was that the harvest feast was ready for the
hungry and expectant. As we descended
to the dining hall we found the tables
temptingly provided with good things pre-
pared for the occasion, including warm
maple sugar, which was very nice. Judg-
ing by the looks of the tables when we left,
a small regiment could have been fed from
the bountiful supply left there.

I think Brother Whitney’s’assertion that
Woodbridge was a prosperous and thriving
Grange was correct. As I have been in-
formed, not a week has passed since his
visit there, but that they have had a meet-
ing and have done degree work, and still
they come.

They were talking of building a new hall
and I think they will need one, for their
neat little hall is filled to overﬂowing.

Yours fraternally,

ELMIRA.
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Crops and Legislators.

Editor Visitor.-—We have had but little
rain since the snow disappeared, and the
cold, dry weather of the past week has
nearly stopped the growth of all vegetation.
Wheat, oats and grass are suffering for rain;
clover leaves wilted, and corn falls to come
up. There is no prospect for relief, but the
signs indicate a hot, dry week to come.
But I am trespassing on Venner's special
domain, and I desist with the prediction
that wheat will be worth 10 shillings per
bushel before the close of the year, and 12
shillings before the harvest of 1882.

That last hit straight from the shoulder

brought the VISITOR all right, with the fol-
lowing full reports of the doings of the Leg-
islature: 000,000 for nearly ﬁve-months’
session. They are all honorable men in
their individual capacity, but as a body they
remind us of a band of robbers united for
the purpose of plundering the tax-payers,
Dowagiac, May 24. REFORMER.

YOUR cause is just, but in such a contest,
you grapple with giants. Do not underrate
the power or the skill of your antagonists,
Wise and conservative counsels will alone
secure success. You must be as prompt to
concede rights as you are determined in de-
pianding thenih N o agrarian or communis-

ic spirit must nd a place in our roceed-
ings.-— William ‘Windom. y P

WE have some valuable clippings from
the Farmers’ Review in reference to wool

and dairy products, on the inside of this
number which should be read.—ED.

 
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MUSKEGON.

 
EATON COUNTY.

Some weeks since, Brother B. E. Benedict
wrote us saying that the County or Pomona.
Grange of Eaton county had instructed him,
the Vvorthy Master, in company with the
Worthy Lecturer of this Pomona Grange,
to visit every Subordinate Grange in the
county of Eaton, and endeavor to bring
about a general awakening of interest and a
revival of feeling; and our aid was solicited
to take a prominent part of the work. After
some waiting, incident upon delayed or mis-
carried letters, the program was ﬁnally
agreed upon, and the work was to begin
April 2-5 at the village of Kalamo. It was
regretted from the outset that the notice was
so short and the season so late as to ﬁnd the
farmers busy.

On the morning of the 25th we left home
for the scene of the week's active work. VV e
dined in the Valley City, and at 2 P. 1.1. were
met, as we stepped from the cars at Ver-
montville, by Brother and Sister Benedict,
whose genial welcome presaged success and
a pleasant time. Soon our horse and buggy
were at the door of Sister Walworth’s resi-
dence, and in care of Brother Benedict we
started for our first point and meeting,

KALAMO.

\Ve reached this pleasant hamlet at an
early hour, at the close of a very quiet elec-
tion fora State Senator to ﬁll the place of
the one lately deceased. At the home of
Brother Reuben Gridley we stopped and
were soon joined by him at tea. It threaten-
ed rain in the evening, yet a very goodly
number were convened at the church at the
appointed hour for the lecture. Brother
Benedict introduced the business of the
meetingin a few well-timed remarks, and
after our address of an hour, a meeting for
the re-organization of the Grange was called
for 9 o’clock the next morning. '

The night was spent at Brother Gridley’s,
and the next forenoon we had the pleasure
of meeting the old members of Kalamo
Grange, No. 224, which has been resting
three or four years, under a suspended
charter. Twenty-one members appeared
and took part in the re-organization. The
oﬂicers were duly elected and installed, and
instructed in the unwritten work of the
Grange,—and we had the pleasure of restor-
ing them their charter, and trust and believe
it will never again be deserted. Brother J.
M. Earl was elected Master, and Brother P.
H. Nye Secretary. This Grange met on
Friday following, and other old members
came back and took their places for work.

After dinner we rode away to the south
and east, to the schoolhouse in north-west
Bradley, where in spite of the very busy
time we found a. goodly number to listen to
us, instead of the schoolmistress, who had
given the children a half-day rest or vaca-
tion. Good attention was given to our talk
of an hour and much interest was manifest
in a revival of the Grange work here. We
know of no location in this county where
there can be a better Grange than here; all
it wants is the united, faithful action of the
farmers interested.

Tea was taken at Brother J. O. Biadley’s,
and then we drove to Bro. Shepherd’s, to
spend the night ’neath the shades of classic
Olivet.

Where can the Grange flourish better
than in a classic atmosphere? “ There is no
calling more elevating to the mind than
agriculture, when viewed as instructed in
our Order.” Its teachings are the loftiest
that man can seek.” Before literature ex-
isted or governments were known, — AGRI-
CUL'rURE"was the ﬁrst calling of man. By
our Order education is nurtured: where
then should she be more kindly greeted,
more cheerfully encouraged, than in the
vicinity of an institution like Olivet, whose
professed aim is the development of men
and women‘? The Order of Patrons of
Husbandry aims to develop a better and
higher manhood and womanhood among its
members, and yet the Grange seems to
have little encouragement in the shades of
this classic school, which is all too eager to
get of the farmers’ support in the attendance
of their children and a liberal endowment
from their hard-earned funds,4but what is
given in return?

Brother Shepherd has a pleasant home,
which with means and good taste he is try-
ing to make still more pleasant and attrac-
tive. After bidding host and hostess good-
bye we rode to

BELLVUE TO THE’ COUNTY GRANGE.

It was the 27th, the date of the regular
meeting of the Pomona Grange. VVe reach-
ed the place in good season and had a little
time to look about this thrifty country vil-
lage. As the hour of meeting arrived we
were pleased to see many pleasant faces of
former days and other places. Brother and
Sister Mayo of Calhoun Pomona Grange,
and Brother and Sister Kenyon,of Marshall
Grange, were present. Soon the genial,
even tempered being, Brother Shipman, put
in an appearance and the hour of Grange
work had arrived. Brother Benedict, the
Worthy Master, called to order. Brother
Shaw, the VVorthy Secretary and others

 
can ens-sen vrsriivoa.

JUNE 1,1881.

were in their places. Soon, however we
were hidden rest from our labors for recrea-
tion in an adjoining room, where the tables
had been spread with an unsparing hand,
and where willing sisters and brothers were
ready to wait upon all the assembled guests.
Brother S. was here too, busiest of the busy,
not talking wool, but sampling food,—beans
and such. All seeming satisﬁed, aline of
march was formed to the Grange hall where
the public meeting took place. The time
passed quickly and we trust proﬁtably. The
evening session was given to Pomona
Grange work, with the exempliﬁcation of
the unwritten work, etc. At a late hour we
found rest at the commodious house of Bro.
Allyn, where we spent the night in com-
pany with Brother Murray, of Charlotte.

One thing pleased us to-day, and that was
that the reports from the Subordinate
Granges were in writing, giving statistics,
showing that all, or at least that nearly all
in the county were having large accessions
of numbers, were circulating the GRANGE
VISITOR freely and growing in faith and
works as well as in numbers.

Bellvue Grange is not very strong in num-
bers, but lacks nothing in faith, is talking
of building a hall of its own, which must
add to its strength in every way.

“ Attempt the end, and never stop to doubt,——-
Naught is so difficult but work will bring it about ”

The morning of the 28th was spent with
Brother Allyn looking at his flock of sheep;
agood ﬂock he has too, at his farm, and
then we madea visit to the lime kiln and
quarry close by. While here I thoughthow
much valuable fertilizing might the farm-
ers near by here use at slight expense.

Brother Benedict came with a horse and
buggy, and we rode east and north into
Broukﬁeld to Brother J. M. Peters.

BBOOKFII-LLD, NO. 22 ,
was a dormant Grange, and had been three
years or more, but a goodly number turned
out at the school house, and the result was
the Grange was duly reorganized, with Bro.
J. M. Peters, Master,and Brother Peter Wil-
son, as Secretary, and the Charter restored
to 18 members, who were duly instructed.
Had our meeting been held in the evening
we think there would have been 30 or more
members present to have taken hold of the
work again. VVe predict success for this
Grange. Already a hall is talked. it is
needed.
EATON RAPIDS.

The work completed at Brookfield, we
hurried away towards Eaton Rapids, stop-
ping at Brother and Sister Allyn’s on the
way to take a hurried cup of tea. Brother
and Sister Bentley were fellow guests. At
Eaton Rapids the Red Ribbon hall was the
place of meeting. Having in view that
extra meetings were held that evening in
some of the churches, and a ministerial
association was in progress, we had a fair at-
tendance in the large ball used. As at the
other places Bro. Benedict spoke ﬁrst, giv-
ing the subject and an introduction. \Ve
spoke an hour or more to a very attentive
audience. The meeting over, we rode to
the home of Brother and Sister Grinnelle
to spend the night.

TO ROXAND CENTER.

To the northward and Westward we rode
through Potterville,—a long ride reaching
Brother Howell’s to dinner. In the base-
ment of the hall we found a ﬁne audience
assembled. The exercises were opened by
singing. VVe must here pause to say that a
large, well drilled choir did the singing
much to our taste and satisfaction. The
organ was well played by a daughter of the
chorister, Bro. Howell. The selections were
good, and just suited the occasion. After
Brother Benedict spoke, another good selec-
tion Was sung, giving us inspiration for the
hour and a half we had to talk. The exer-
cises were closed with a ﬁtting piece by the
choir. With such singing, Grange meet-
ings would ever have a better effect, either
public or private in character. The meeting
over we made a visit to the hall of Roxand
Grange. They have a good one, a home of
their own, where they can meet with none

to molest. ..
SUNFI ELD

was our next place, and away we rode until
Shaytown gladdened the eye. VVe had little
diﬂiculty in ﬁnding the residence of A.
Bark, whose home was to shelter us and
whose larder was to feed us that night.

At. the appointed hour we found the hall
of this Grange well ﬁlled with Patrons ‘and
their friends ready to listen. We were
much pleased to see so many young people
in our audience, and were better pleased to
learn that most of them were members
of the Grange, and took an active part in
its work. With a body of such intelligent
young ladies and gentlemen one would
almost wish there was a Grange meeting
every evening. Of course there was sing-
ing at this meeting, and with practice and
training they can have excellent music for
their meetings here. Again-we spoke to a
large audience, all of whom listened with
attention, and we hope good will result.

We were here introduced to Brother John
Dow, the oldest supervisor in Michigan,
who for 43 years has held the oﬂice. Only
one other person, and he only one year,
has held the office since the town was
organized.

At a late hour we reached Brother Bark’s
to rest for the coming day's duties.
CHESTER NEXT.

An early start, a call at Brother Kelly

Bosworth’s, and we reached the hall Of
Chester Grange in good time to ﬁnd a few
of the faithful out, to whom we spoke
brieﬂy and explained the U. W. This
Grange has a good hall located at a good
point, and is taking members quite rapidly-
Want of notice and the busy time kept
many away to-day. After the meeting we
rode to Brother Scott’s, where 8 good
dinner was very quickly made ready, and
placed before us, VVe ate and ran, making
haste to reach our next place,
vi-:BMo.\'TviLLE.

In the chapel of this village we found a
goodly number assembled, to whom we
spoke for an hour or more. Good singing
and excellent attention merit more than
passing notice. This was the anniversary
of the organization of this Grange. For
ﬁve years have its members and ofiicers
come and gone, and grown -in the good
word and work. They have a fine lot or
lots in this village for a hall, upon which
they intend at no distant day to build them
a commodious buiiding. They have an old
building, too small, which they now use.
It is their own, however, and will do for a
time until, in their growing strength, they
can build the contemplated hall. \Vith
Brother and Sister Benedict, we took tea
with Sister VValworth. The evening being
the regular meeting of the Grange, we, in
the absence of the Master, acted  Master
in the conferring of two degrees upon a can-
didate, and then gave the lessons of the
unwritten work. At a late hour we rode
home with Brother and Sister Benedict, to
spend Sunday with them in their new
house not yet completed.

Brother B. and wife have a very pleasant
location, a new brick house only partly
ﬁnished, which in time may be made very
pleasant indeed. W'e enjoyed our day of
rest with them, and a ramble in the woods
with the blooming flowers of spring and the
opening foliage.

A‘.\'0THER \\'l~:EK
was begun on May 2d by writing during
the forenoon, and after dinner riding to the
station to take the cars for another part of
the county. While waiting at the depot we
met Mr. Church, one of those who, -15 years
ago, came from Vermont, and located the
land upon which this village now stands;
whence the name—Vermontvillc. Soon the
train came and bore us, in company with
Brother Benedict, to Eaton Rapids, where,
changing cars, we rode to the place of our
evening meeting,
DIMOXDALE.

At the depot we were met by Bro. Saun-
ders, who conducted us to his home——the
Grange hall. This brother was burned out
last winter, and has since been living in the
basement of the Grange hall, and will until
he completes his own dwelling near by.

The public meeting was to be in the base-
ment of the church, where, after tea, we
repaired to ﬁnd a large an! attentive audi-
ence. Here too we had excellent singing,
in which a large number joined, adding
greatly to the interest of the occasion. \Ve
rode home with Bro. G. 1). Pray, at whose
pleasant home we found and enjoyed rest
for the night. This Grange is one of the
most prosperous Granges in the county, and
is still growing rapidly in numbers as well
as in good works.

After a substantial dinner, Bro. Pray took
us to Potterville, where we saw Bro. VVood-
ruff and others and learned that there was a
growing sentiment towards a Grange there,
where ﬁve years ago we had taken up the
charter of 196.

VVe went by train to Charlotte and found
Bro. and Sister Shaw at home. Called upon
friend and Bro. Johnston of the Leader-
found him busy and happy. Here we ran
into a three days’ Sunday School meeting,
which took some of the interest of the
Patrons. The meeting at the hall was fairly
attended, and when we had spoken had the
pleasure of hearing the Hon. E. S. Lacy, M.
C. elect from this district, heartily endorse
the views of the order of P. of H. upon the
railroad, patent right, and the agricultural
department questions, and we congratulate
the farmers of Michigan that they will have
one earnest champion of their rights and
interests ‘in the next Congress. Would that
the eight other districts were as ably repre-
sented and as well in the interests of agricul-
ture—the chief interest of the people of
Michigan. Let the farmers and Patrons of
Michigan watch well those to whom have
been delegated the duty of representing their
interests and advocating their principles in
legislative halls. Let representatives be
advised of our wishes and rewarded for
faithfulness as well as condemned for neg-
iect of duty.

The night was spent at the home of Bro.
E. Pray, county treasurer of‘ Eaton Co.——
a good place to go when one had completed
his duties in the county——but of little use to
us as our accounts had not been audited by
the Board of Supervisors.

After dinner at Bro. Pray’s we bade adieu
to hostess and family, Bro. Benedict, Char-
lotte and Eaton county, and started for the
southwest-for Schoolci-aft. The only acci-
dent on the way was a train, distributing
fence posts, which thought best to unload
two cars in one place, thus obstructing the
track between Scotts and Vicksburg. Surely
this road has earned its local reputation of
"ti-i-weekly,” that is “tries to go Monday
morning and usually gets started by Satur-

day night.”

 
We have been much pleased with the
work in Eaton county. Its Pomona Grange
is doing well, but has much yet before it.
While a dormant Grange remains, or a loca-
tion with suﬂicient farmers to form a
Grange within its jurisdiction, Eaton county
Pomona Grange will ﬁnd abundant ﬁeld for
labor. \Vith continued and earnest effort
they may soon say there is no dor-inant
Grange in all our borders, but everywhere
an enlightened and intelligent class of
farmers ﬁll our halls and .make our meet-
ings interesting and instructive in the advo-
cacy and demonstration of the principles of
the Grange. Remember, brothers and sis-
ters, the Grange is what you make it. To
all farmers we say, the Grange is yours:
Use it.

Stephen A. Douglass Said»-

“Agriculture has found a larger ﬁeld for
the exercise of the. intellectual and moral
energies of man in this (:()ll11ll‘yi,l1B.iJ in any
other of the globe. * The growth of our

country is marked by the advancement of}
Agriculture is settling our new ‘

agriculture.
States and territories; agriculture gives
employment to our workshops ; agriculture
furnishes the products which form the basis
of our foreign and domestic commerce; ag-
riculture, by supplying the b;ilky articles
of our exports, employs the tonnage of our
ship-builders, and in seeking markets for its
increased products, calls for the construction
of railroads and canals. '3'-" 5*‘ * Thus ag-
riculture stimulates cvery species of in-
dustry, and is the parent and supporter of
them all. \Vhat, I ‘would ask, would be
the condition of our foreign commerce had
it not been stimulated by the increased pro-
ductions of agriculture 2’ ”

Gaining.

In the winter we visited No. 74, which
was weak in numbers, but strong in faith
and hope, full of perseverance. A letter at
hand says they have just given the degrees
to one candidate; on April ﬁlo‘, had two
more applications, and on May 10 had ﬁve
more applications with good prospects of
still more. The truth of our principles is
mighty and must prevail. “Hope on, per-
severe ever.” Give intelligent thinking
farmers the literature of the Grange, either
from the printed sheet, or from the lips of
the Lecturer, and they will endorse and
embrace the lessons taught. Teach, if you
would have men know.

Still Growing.

\Ve mentioned some time since that the
Grange at W-——had nine applications the
ﬁrst meeting after we were there in Febru-
rry. A letter at hand says six more candi-
dates are being instructed, and more appli-
cations awaiting action. Soon that old hail
will be too small, and you will have
strength to build and numbers to ﬁll a
larger one—-a pleasant home of your own.

Wool.

Bi-:\'iEw or 1880 AND OUTLOOK son 1881.

The unprecedented demand for woolen
goods during the closing half of 1879 and
opening quarter of 1880, stimulated the
production of such fabrics to an extent
never before approached. Factories that for
years had stood idle, because of no remuner-
ative demand were set at work, and driven
to their utmost capacity; others had large
additions made to their machinery, and a
few new ones were built. As a natural
result the demand for wools was commen-
surate to the call for goods. To meet this
demand the country was scoured by wool-
buyers and prices advanced enormously.
Medium ﬂeece that sold for 30@,5.33c in June,
1879, brought 60@62c. in March, 1880. The
result of this demand was to bring into
market every pound of wool that had been
held back on account of unsatisfactory
prices, and in one instance we heard of an
Ohio wool-grower who brought in the clip
of 13 consecutive years, and reports of sales
of the accumulated clips of three to six
years were numerous. The supply, how-
ever was inadequate, and foreign wools
were imported to an extent that completely
dwarfed the largest importations of any
former period, the imports for the ﬁscal
year ending June 30, 1880, being 128,131,748
lbs against 39,005,155 lbs, for the previous 12
months. In addition there were large con-
signments on the way that did not arrive
until later in the season; there was alsoa
gain of $5,000,000 in the imports of manu-
factured woolens. As might have been ex-
pected‘ the market was glutted with wool
and woolen fabrics. Manufacturers failed
to ﬁnd sale for their goods, at anything
near cost, and importers were in a like
position. Being desirous, if not compelled,
as many were to realize, their iinportations
were forced to sale regardless of cost, and
domestic wools and woolens declined in
sympathy, medium ﬂeece falling from
5-5@62c. in March, 1880, to 35@40c. the fol-
lowing June, and buyers were less plenty
at 35c. than at 60c. per lb. During the_re-
mainer of the season the market was life-
less, and the year closed with a large per-
centage of the year’s clip on hand, the stock
of all kinds in Boston, New York, and
Philadelphia for three years, being as
follows: January 1, 1881, 40,902,976; Jan_u-.
ary 1, 1880, 32,140,592; January 1, 1849,
30,558,965 lbs. _

it is impossible to give a correct estimate
of the stocks at interior points on the first
of this or the two preceding years; but it is
safe to say that_.the precentage of excess, at
the beginning of 1881, was quite as large as
at the seaboard cities given above. There
has, however, been a material diminution
in the imports during the ﬁrst four months
of the current year as compared with the
same period in 1880, the decrease at New
York and Boston being 105,899 bales, equiv-
alent to about 50,000,000 pounds. The fall-
ing off at Philadelphia has also been quite

as large in proportion; hence while the con-
sumption thus far the current year has been
less than for the same period in 1880, the
actual supply of old wool on hand at ’the
beginning of the present shearing season
was far less than at the corresponding time
in 1880. The imports during the remainder
of the year will also be less than last year,
for the reason that the depressed condition
of the trade as deterred importers from
sending out orders for foreign wools.

_ AS regards the current year's clip there is
little reason to suppose that it will be any
greater that that of 1880, as the loss of sheep
during the long severe winter will offset the
increase of lambs last year. In many
localities the sheep came out inrpoor con-
dition, and we hear considerable complaint
that they are not turning off as much wool
per head. \Vitl1 these facts in view we
consider the present position of the market
as much healthier than at the opening of
last season; and although the demand for

new wool is likely to be slow and buyers
very cautious until there is a further reduc-
tion of the old stock now on hand, the
surroundings are such as to justify the con-
clusion that the clip will all be wanted for
consumption at fairly rciiiiiiiemtivc prices
to the Wool-grower.—Farmc7’.s’ Review.

Furnish your Boys with Tools.

l’r<>i'-sssor Sweet, in an address before the
Onoiidago l<‘armer’s Club, said: “The
farmer who provides himself with the nec-
essary tools to do the repairing of the farm,
not only makes a paying investment but
does for his sons in another way just exactly
what he does for them at school. He gives
them a chance to learn something; he does
even more-«he gives them a chance to do
something. From among those boys will
be found the mechanical engineersﬂof the
future.” It is well known among mechan-
ics thut when an uppl‘cLltl('0 “learns to
handle his tools,” his trade is half learned.
No man can ever saw oil‘ a fence-board as it
should be done without considerable prac-
tice. He must first learn to handle his saw.
Not half of mankind—-—to say nothing of
womankind-—can drivea nail without either
splitting the board or pounding their
fingers; and perhaps they will do both.
Not one man in twenty can shove a jack-
plane with any reasonable hopes of success;
and the like awkwardness extends to the
use of all manner of tools. If farmers will
furnish their boys with tools, and teach
them how to keep them in order, the next
generation will not be so helpless when
anything is broken, as is the present one.
With a few dollars invested in tools, many
journeys to town may be avoided. More-
over, by the use of tools, one may learn
something of mechanics, and is a much
better judge when called upon to select any
machinery or tools.
,~ I remember an instance, when a boy, of a
neighbor who had a. small workshop, with
an assortment of tools which his boys were
allowed to use, and the consequences were,
his ﬁve boys, every one of them, became in
time first-class mechanics. Other boys in
the same neighborhood, apparently equally

intelligent, almost without an exception,
grew up to be bunglers, some of them with-
out sufficient skill to sharpen a sled-stake -
Rural ]\’ew Yorker.

Don‘! Neglect the Grange Meetings.

At this season of the year, when the farm-
ers are more particularly engaged in attend-
ing to farm duties, they should not so
exclusively give themselves up to their
pursuits, as to neglect the Grange meetings.
There is no substantial excuse for this
remisness. The half-a day once in two
weeks would not be missed from the amount
of labor which the farm requires. At no
other time of the year is a little recreation
more acceptable or proﬁtable than during
the period of putting in and tending the
crops. Farmers at this season are apt to
work too hard. They injure themselves by
overstraining the muscles, and by neglect-
ing head work. The Grange attended on a.
Saturday afternoon will restore the equili-
brium. You will get ideas there; you can
talk yourself, and hear the views of others.
The matters discussed will be those u per-
most in the mind for the season, and t ere-
fore the most practical. While your mind
will be prompted to renewed activity and
your better nature will he brought to the
surface, your body will gain needed rest.
If you are wise you will not neglect the
Grange during the present season. At no
time will you find more proﬁtin its meet-
ings.-—Farmers’ Friend.

   
The Gates Ajar.
It is with sincere pleasure that we con-
gratulate Patrons everywhere upon the pro-
gressive step just taken by our Order, the
“official” announcement of which is now
made and will be received with great joy in
thousands of homes all over our land. We
can hear the joyous welcome with which
the glad tidings are received by the young
people to whom the gates of our great ' fra-
ternity will now swing lightly open in an-
swer to their youthful signals. VVe can see
their brightening eyes, the ﬂushing cheek,
the ﬁrmer step, as they realize that at four-
teen years, parents, friends and neighbors
are willing to trust them with the responsi-
bilities, and share with them the pleasures
and the advantages of the Grange. That
they will appreciate this trust, improve the
opportunities offered, and never betray the
conﬁdence placed in them, no one can doubt.
We consider this one of the most import-
ant of the many forward steps that our Or-
der has of late taken. We have now, as it
were, discounted the future by two years,
advanced the growth of the Grange just that
much, and thousands of hearts and willing

hands who have been impatient at the years

that in youth roll slowly by, will at once en-
list under our banner, and, while being ben-
eﬁted themselves, aid in carrying on the
righteous cause of right, freedom and hu-
manity. In the young folks are centered
the hopes of the family, the Grange and the
nation; none too soon will they now re-
ceive lessons that tend to develop a higher
and better manhood and womanhood, that
will "help them in.loving the good, the
beautiful, the true, the home, the farm, the
Grange, and their native land." Yes, we
open the doors and bid them welcome, wel-
come to our Grange halls, welcome to our
social gatherings, welcome to all our ho

and efforts for the better life, welcome “ for
the good of our Order, our country and

man kind.”— Cincinnati Grange Bulletin.

 
-‘Va;

 
JUNE 1, 1881.

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Beautiful Homes for Farmers.

[Read at the Farmers’ Institute held at
Bangor, January 14, 1881, by Jay Wood-
man.]

Much has been writen about beautiful
homes for farmers ; each writer has suggest-
ed a never-failing remedy for unattractive
homes, and depicted the evil results if the
remedy given is not followed. ,

I shall not begin in the usual manner by
telling how the illy kept farmer’s home
looks, with its tumble down fences, pig-pen
in the front yard, gate offtbe hinges, and so
on; but it shall be the aim of this article to
consider some of the reasons why so many
of our farmer's homes are unattractive
homes, and suggest in an humble way how
the defects of such homes may be remedied.

Perhaps one of the reasons why so mauy
of our homes have an air of forlornness, is,
this is not a very old country, the farmers
in their desire to get clear of debt and im-
prove their furms have put their time in
work which would give a return in dollars
and cents, and have let the “looks” take
care of themselves. ’l‘hey soon get accus-
tomed to the appearance of things, and
when they get in easy circumstances, they
let things go on in the same old way.

One reason frequently given for not mak-
ing our homes more attractive, is, that it
costs too much. The farmer on eighty
acres of land, sees his rich neighbor’s hand-
some mansion, costly fences, fountains, con-
servatories, and says, “ I cannot afford all
that,” and so he can’t, but it never occurs to
him that a handsome home does not neces-
sarily mean an expensive hotise and elabor-
ate grounds. A neat board fence is as cheap
in the long run, as a rail fence. Half an
hour's work each week with a scythe will
keep the greensward about the house look-
ing clean and neat, and an hour each year
will keep a few clumps of shrubbery in the
best of order. If his wife and daughters
will cultivate ii few flowers and ornamental
foliage, the time thus spent will be more
than repaid in the reduction of doctor’s bill,
and a house that is small enough to be kept
well, is large enough to look well. Very
many farmers have exaggerated notions of a
beautiful home. They will build a large,
handsome house altogether too large to live
in, and then, their money exhausted, they
are unable to finish as they have begun, so
their three or four thousand dollar house
has a rail fence in front of it, and looks all
discordant with its surroundings. l)on’t
build too nice a house; let it be a house that
you can afford, and then keep it well paint-
ed,and let there be good fences and well
sodded lawns around it. If you can’t afford
to keep a lawn mower, asharp scythe, well
applied for half an hour every week or two,
will keep your lawn in good condition.
Don’t leave your scythe and rake leaning
against the front fence; they are not very
ornamental,‘ and if they stay there long
they will not be very useful. Keep things
picked up. Bits of boards, sticks of wood,
wisps of straw, are unsightly objects, and it
takes but very little time to put such articles
in their proper places.

All this is not hard work or difficult.
One is surprised to ﬁnd with how little labor
and expense oiie’s premises may be kept
looking pleasant and attractive. _

Another reason why the exterior of so
many of our farmer’s houses is unattractive,
is that the farmers themselves have no
taste. It is a lamentable fact that a large
proportion of our farmers are men who have
no regard whatever for the appearance of
their homes; and even worse: I have heard
men gloiy in the fact that they didn’t care
how their places looked, so long as they
were proﬁtable ﬁnancially. I have heard
men say, that for them a potato patch was
the handsomest. ﬂower bed that could be
had in a front yard. And yet did you ever
notice that it is these men who are al-
ways complaining, that because they are
nothing but farmers, other people ignoie
them ? _

This talk about other people looking
down upon farmers simply because they
are farmers, is all bosh. Ifa farmer is wor-
thy of respect, he will be respected; but if
he will persist in making himself and his
home the laughing stock of more reﬁned
and cultivated people, he will he laughed at,
and people will look down on him, and pity
him because he didn’t know more, and is
nothing but a poor farmer.

In this free land of ours, a man, whether
he be a farmer, a clergyman or blacksmith,
is ranked in the social scale by his integrity,
his ability and his education.

VVe judge largely of the intelligence of a
family by the amount of civilization shown
in the adornment of their homes.

A home whose outward adornment shows
the work of an artistic hand is a home
where we expect intelligent and cultivated
people; and don’t you know we form our
opinions of people largely from their sur-
roundings? When we go by a farmer’s
house, be it large or small, where we see
the work of careful, tasteful hands, we say
that the people who live there_ know some-
thing, and when we go by an illy kept far-
-mer’s home we are rather apt to come to an
opposite conclusion ; and let everyman re-
member this who does not think it_ pays to
-care for the appearance of his premises. .

If a farmer’s family get the idea into their
heads that they want to make their home
more pleasant and attractive,it is wonderful
how such an idea, if it sticks, will revolu-
tionize the family. In order to get ideas
they take papers and magazines, and bu
books, their minds become cultivated, th r
tastes become reﬁned and elevated and the
affect is shown in the appearance of their
surroundings. They become people lit to
associate with other cultivated minds. They
are respected by everybody. No one dreams
of ignoring them because they live on a
glarm. They are pointed out as a‘ model
-$Ffarmer’s family, and their home a model
farmer’s home. But I think I hear some
lady say, “ That is all right on paper, but
men havesolittle taste.” It is often said
that a man naturally does not have asmuch
taste as a woman, but I don’t believe it. _

Did you ever think of the difference in
the bringing up of the average farmer’s
boys and farmer’s girls? The girls
from the cradle are taught to love and dis-
tinguish‘t.he harmony of color and propor-
tion; they are dressed neatly and taught to
keep themselves looking nicely, for they
are little ladies. When they are sent to
school their mother‘ prides herself on their
pretty appearance, but "how is it with the
boy? As soon as he can walk he is dressed

in a jacket and pants made from his father’s'

old frock, and “ turned out "to grass.”
When he is old enough to go to school, he
is dressed in anytbingthat comes handy.

rest of the State.

It doesn’t make any difference how he looks;
he is only a boy anyhow.

If his people are addicted to church-going,
when he is a little older, perhaps he has a
suit of “ Sunday clothes,” but he puts them
on so seldom,when he is ‘dressed up.’ he
feels like a cat in a strange garret. VVhen
his sisters approach their teens they are
given a nice sunny room in some quarter of
the house, they are taught to keepit looking
neat and tidy; but any back room, any gar-
ret, is good enough for the boy. No carpet is
on the ﬂoor of his room. his cowhide boots
would wear itall out. His room is furnished
with a broken table and a superannuated
chair or two. It wouldn't do to puta decent
article of furniture in his room : he is a boy
and might break it. No pictures are hung on
the walls, there is no one to see them but
him. If he should chance to get tbepidea
that he wanted a decent; room, and should
ask for some unoccupied room in the house,
then his sisters would be sure to want it to
sleep in, or to store extra clothes or furniture
in, or it would be kept as a guest room to be
used two or three times a year; and so he
doesn't get it. If he should happen to want
to wear respectable looking clothes to school,
his mother would mildly inform him that
it was work to iron white shirts, and would
further add that blue jeans were plenty
good enough for a boy; his taste has never
been cultivated, he doesn’t know how to
keep himself or any other thing in a neat
looking condition, he has never had the
school of experience to learn in, and by the
time he has grown to manhood he has come
to the conclusion that it isn’t necessary for
aman to have any-taste: his mother de-
plores the fact that her husband cs res so
little about the appearance of his surround-
ings; she has brought her son up to become
anotherjust such man, and lie in his turn
will get married, and his wife will mourn
because the grounds around the house are
in such an ill kept condition. but she too
will bring her children up in the same old
way. If the farmers’ wives of America will
give the rising generation of fartners a
chance, they will become farmers who will
have as much regard for the external appear-
ance of their homes as their wives will have
for theinside of the house; and ‘no woman
who gives the boys the poorest room and the
poorest furniture has a right to complain if
her husband builds a pig-pen iii the front
yard.

A beautiful home means more than just a
pleasant appearance ; it means a place where
0ne.c-an feel as though it was really home:
it means a place where there are books and
papers and iiiagaziiies; ,it means a place
which to fatlier and son, mother and daugh-
ter, is the deare.-t spot on earth.

There are inany baautiful liomcs in this
land of ours; beautiful to the eyes and
beautiful in the lives that are being lived
there. There are still a few blotches on
the landst-ape,whei'e some farmers stay over
night. But the American farmer is making
steady progress, each succeeding generation
is better educated than the last. Each suc-
ceeding one sees corresponding improve-
ments in our farmers’ homes; and it doesn’t
take much of an intellectual telescope to
discern the time when it shall be the ambi-
tion of every American farmer to make his
home a place of beauty and ajoy forever.

Michigan Horticultural Socieiy—Summer Meeting
at Benton Harbor.

In acceptance of an invitation from the
Berrien County Horticultural Society, the
State Horticultural Society will hold its
summer meeting at Benton Harbor, June 7,
8, and S). Excursion rates will be given by
Chicago & W'est Michig;-.n railroad from all
stations on its lines, and the people of Ben-
ton Harbor, St. Joseph, and vicinity a.n-
noun-3e that they will provide free entertain-
ment to all iiiembers of the State Society
and delegates from branch organizations.

Arrangements are making for a feast of
good things at this meeting, and there
should be a large attendance. All who in-
tend going should at once communicate the
fact to Secretary Chas. VV. Garﬁeld, Grand
Rapids, Michigan, in order to facilitate, if
possible, further railroad arrangements.
Nine years have elapsed since the Society
held its last meeting in Berrien county,and,
although great changes have brought about
during this time, still the people there have
as Warm hearts and are as Lil(!l‘Ul1gi11y inter-
ested in progressive horticulture as ever.

The following topics will occupy the at-
tention of the convention :

1. Highway tree—planting.

2. Adaptability of varieties of Michigan
fruits to the Chicago market.

3. Lessons for the horticulturist from the
winter of 1880-81.

4. Grape growing and wine-making.

5. Our steps towards the ornamentation of
school grounds.

6. Fruit packages and legislation concern-
ing them. ,

7. Pleasures and proﬁts of amateur straw-
berry culture.

8. What points do we need to gain in the
improvement of small fruits '?

9. New facts and new laws concerning the
yellows.

10. Of the newer strawberries, which are
deserving our attention ?

11. How shall trees injured by the severi-
ty of winter be reinvigorated ?

12. Will any endorsment of new varieties
make it safe to plant them extensively in
localities where they have not been tried ?

13. Economical pruning and training of
grapes.

14. Arbor day and its promises.

15. Vegetables as a part of home economy.

A number of other questions connected
with branch societies, the Boston exhibit,
State fair, and other features of our work,
will arise and occupy the attention of the
Convention. Several horticulturisis from
our own and adjoining States have promis-
ed us thir assistance upon the above topics.
and all who attend are requested to go pre-
pared to take part in the discussions.

Benton Harbor is in the center of a region
which ships more small fruits than all the
This will be a good op-
portunity to visit this famous region of fruit
farms, and it is to be hoped that there may
be a large attendance.

,This convention will open in Antisdale’s
hall at 7;l o'clock on the evening of June 7,
and all delegatesare requested upon their
arrival to repair to the hall and register,
when the reception committee will care for
them. It is desirable that there be an ex-

hibit of such fruits as may be in; season, es-

pecially of new and promising varieties. .
T. T. LYoN,'Pi-esldeiit,
CHAS. W. GARFIELD, Secretary.

Railroad companies.

To the Editors of the Evening Past.--— I
have been deeply interested in the railroad
question as stated by Judge Black, George
W. Curtis, Leland Stanford and F. B. Thur-
ber. Iagree perfectly with Mr. Stanford
when he says: “This question of transpor-
tation is of an importance that prevents its
being settled except upon just and correct
principles.” For that reason the problem
should be correctly stated.

In the first place, nearly all parties con-
tend over legal problems, as though there
was a divinity so hedged about a rail-
road king that laws of man, although
sufficient forsaid king’s creation, have no
power for his destruction. Certainly the
rights of property in railroads are no more
sacred than are the rights of property in any
other form. The State says to the real es-
tate owner “ Pay your tax or your property
will be sold.” To the money lender it says,
you shall take but six per centiim interest,
and if more is charged you shall forfeit all
claims to interest,’ These illustrations are
sufficient to show that all property is held
and used subject to the control, in some de-
gree, of the government which protects it
and establishes the code of laws \‘l‘1l1‘.‘1l ren-
ders legal ownership pus.-sible. A vested
right  an absolute right ; an absolute right
cannot exist under the control of a power
that can abridge it.

Governments are instituted to secure the
people in their right to live, in the results
of their labor and to give protection to the
weak—the poor and iiiieducated——agaiii~at
the oppression of the strong——the rich and
educated sharper. Government should per-
form its functions with justice to every iii-
terest under its care. It has no right to
superintend one class of corporations, to in-
spect their accounts and administer upon
their business affairs as it does with banking
and insurance, and omit to do the same
with corporations like railroads, which
have more to do with the lives and property
of people than have either banking or iii
surance corporations. It has no right to
make laws regulating the discounts made
by banks, the reserves to be carried by in-
surance companies, and at the same time
allow railroad corporations to be the sole
judge of the amountpf tax which they will
impose upon the commerce and iiiteicourse
of the country.

If railioad corporations are so much above
the law that it cannot bring them under its
supervision, then it is clear that the State
should at once withdraw its protection from
all railroad property, and cease to guard
that which its owners claim the law cannot
control.

Corporations are the creations of the
State. Even railroad managers admit that
“railroads are corporations formed under
general corporation laws.”- If the State
makes people amenable to its laws, in has
no right to create a power superior to the
sovereign people. Are dollars more sacred
than men? Corporations are created that
they may serve the public in a way that in-
dividuals cannot do. They are combina-
tions of individuals and the wealth of indi-
viduals; therefore they are stronger than
individuals and can only be controlled by
the superior power of the State, which ex-
ists for the protection of’ individuals. That
the citizen may judge intelligently as to
whether the State is performing this func-
tion when it creates a corporation, it is the
first duty of the State to give to its citizens
full and trustworthy information regarding
the corporations it creates. If there is no
injustice done to any citizen by any corpora-
tion, why should corporations object to an
annual certilicate, from the State, of good
character, hone.-t dealing and economical
management ? If the ownersofcorporations
were wise, they would see the signs of the
times. they would seek such protection
against the unwarranted assertioiis of their
assailants.

In all this discussion the rights of property
are ingeniously kept in the foreground, and
the rights of the people covered out of sight
by it. The true problem is not how rail-
roads come to exist, not what is or has been
legal regarding them, but what ought to be
legal. Every railroad corporation in the
country should take notice that the people
intend to change the laws relating to them.
If’ legislative action has been unwise in the
past, as the people think it has, it becomes
the interest and the duty of every citizen,
and the parariioiiut duty of every represen-
tative of the people to obtain correct infor-
mation upon the subject, that no mistakes
may be madein the future. In what better
way can such information be obtained than
through the official reports of the commis-
sioners appointed and clothed with authori-
ty to investigate every detail of the subject,in
the interests of the people? The good sense,
honesty and justness of the people of this
country cannot be impeached. Railroad
managers who claim that they will suffer
injustice at the hands of the people of this
country if’ their corporations are brought
under governmental supervision, do not
credit their hearers with the intelligence
they possess. Will the intelligent world
doubt that this people will be honorable and
will recognize theirjust obligations to those
who are developing the resources of the
country by giving it superior transportation
facilities? More especially so, as the per-
sons so employed are a part of the people,
come in daily contact with them and have
it in their power to make such an exhibit of
their accounts and fair dealing that they
can easily cause the people to understand
the equity of the differences between them?

There was never yet a demand for the
abatement of a nuisance or for relief from
oppression, that the owner of the objection-
able property, or the oppressor, did not at-
tempt to hide himself behind the sacred
rights of property. Yet there have been
many nuisances abated and many oppres-
sion-i relieved. Railroad managers should
take notice that such a defense as they are
making has never yet succeeded in thwart-
ing the will of the people. If they are
shrewd they will at once concede the de-
mand for a thorough supervision of their
affairs by State and National commissioners,
to the end that correct information may be
disseminated. When they place themselves
upon the justice of an intelligent people,
and do all they can to make the people real-
ly intelligent upon the subject in which
they. are so largely interested. they will nev-
er fail to have their claim for fair compensa-
tion for services rendered, correctly audited
and promptly paid. A. R. F,.

New York, January 29, 1881.

 
A celery garden near London, England,

_ is 46 acres in extent, and produces a half-

million of plants annually.

A Great Monopoly.

Very few of the forty millions of people in
the United States who burn kerosene know
that its production, manufacture, and ex-
port, its price at home and abroad, have
been controlled for years by a single corpor-
ation—the Standard Oil Company. This
company began in a partnership, in the
early days of the civil war. between Samuel
Andrews and John Rockefeller in Cleve-
land. Rockefeller had been a bookkeeper
in some interior town in Ohio, and bad
afterwards made a few thousand dollars by
keeping a flour store in Cleveland. An-
drews had been a day laborer in reﬁneries,
and so poor that his wife took in sewing.
He found a way of reﬁning by which more
kerosene could be got out of a barrel of
petroleum than by any other method, and
set up for himselfa ten-barrel still in Cleve-
land by which he cleared $500 in six months.
Andrews’ still and Rockel'ellei"s savings
have grown into the Standard Oil Company.
It has a capital, noniinally $3,500,001), but
really much more, on which itdivides among
its stockholders every year millions of dol-
lars of proﬁts. It has reﬁneries at Cleveland,
Baltimore, and New‘ York. its own acid
works, glue factories, hardware stores and
barrel shop.-; supply it with all the acces-
sories it needs in its business. it has bought
land at Indianapolis on which to erect the
largest barrel factory in the country. It has
drawn its check for $l,lloU,0UU to suppress a
rival. Jt buys 3lJ,()Ul) oi‘ -10,000 barrels of
crude oil a day, at a price fixed by itself,
and makes special contracts with the rail-
roads for the transportation of 13,000,000 to
14,000,000 barrels of oil a. year. The four
quarters of the globe are partitioned among
the members of the Standard combinations.
One has the control of the Chzna trade;
another that of some country of Europe;
another that of the United States. In New
York you cannot buy oil for East Indian
export from the house that has been given
to the European trade; reciprocally, the
East Indian house is not allowed to sell for
export to Europe. The Stantlard produces
only one littleth or sixtieth of our petroleum,
but dictates the price of’ all, and reﬁnes nine-
tenths. Circulars are issued at intervals by
which the price of oil is fixed for all the
cities of the country, except New York,
where a little competition survives. Such
is the iiidiflercnce of the Standard Oil coin-
puny to railroad charges that the price is
made the same t'or points so far apart as
Terre Haute, Chicago, and Kcokuk. There
is not today a i!1l::l'(:11al1i3 in Chicago, or any
other city in the New England, western or
southern states, dealing in kerosene, whose
prices are not fixed for him by the Standard.
in all cases these prices are graded so that a
merchant in one city cannot export to
another. Chicago, Cincinnati or Cleveland
is not allowed to supply the tributary towns.
That. is done by the Standard itself, which
runs oil in its own tank cars to all the prin-
cipal points of distribution. This corpora-
tion has driven into bankruptcy, or out of
business, or into union with itself, all the
petroleum reﬁneries in the country except
five in New York, and a few of little conse-
quence in western Pennsylvania. Nobody
knows how many millions Rockefeller is
worth. Current gossip among his business
acquaintance in Cleveland puts his income
last year at a figure second only, if second
at all, to that of Vanderbilt. His partner,
Samuel Andrews, the poor English day
laborer, retired years ago with millions.
Just who the Standard Oil company are,
exactly what their capital is, and what are
their relations to the railroads, nobody
knows except in part. Their officers refused
to testify before the Supreme Court ofI’enn-
sylvania, thelate New York Railroad Inves-
tigating Committee, and a committee of
Congress. The New York committee found
there was nothing to be learned i'rom them
and was compelled to confess its inability to
ascertain as much as it desired to know “ of
this mysterious organization, whose busi-
ness and transactions are of such a character
that its members declined giving a history
or description, lest their testimony be used
to convict them of crime.”-——H. H. Lloyd in
March Atlantic.

 
Census Items.

The indications are that we shall present-
lyknow all about the American citizen-
numerically, financially, geographically,
physiological y, and morally. If we do not
it will not be the fault of the tenth census.
Statistically he has been sitting for his pho-
tograph and we have viewed him from
every position, and classiﬁed according to
race, age, sex, color. religion, and family
relations. Never before has this country
been so inundated with information about
itself as it will be when this remarkable
piece of literature goes to press. Every
now and then a bulletin is issued from the
census bureau giving a glimpse of some
branch of the work, and we are made to
comprehend in some degree the vastness of
the coming array of ﬁgures. There is some-
thing so grandly imposing about them that
it is well,for us perhaps that we are getting
them in sections. In spite of the well-prov-
en fact that ﬁgures can and do lie, and that
when they do lie it is with an audacity and
unblushing hardihood which mere words
can never attain, the tradition that they
cannot lie clings to them with the tenacity
of a superstition.

The census will be like one of those in-
valuable books now and then set adrift on
the wide, black tide of printer’§ ink, labell-
ed “A Thousand and One Things Worth
Knowing. We shall find the nearly super-
fluous woman neatly tabulated, and ascer-
tain in which great “drainage basin” of
the United States lies the most dense popu-
lation besides learning all about acreage,
taxes, bonded indebtedness, and the “ rela-
tions of the sexes.” All this will be more
or less interesting,according to the mental
constitution of the reader, though as a rule
reports of “ wealth, debt, and taxation,”
unless it be our own, do not possess the most
absorbinginterest. But when we come to a
statement of the “distribution of the popu-
lation in elevation above the sea-level,” or a-
narration of the facts about “temperature
and population,” we feel that we have fallen
upon that which vitally concerns all of us.

In that thin, old geography which was
the dream book of our youth that little
phrase, “ the level of thesea,” laid violent
hands upon our imagination, and now that
it rises up again among the statistics of the
tenth census we see the people of this United
States ranged in tiers like a circus audience.
The American citizen idealized and averaged
is about seven hundred feet tall. While his

feet are planted in the swampy alluvial sec-

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tions of the South, his head looms up in the
Oordilleran region. To cut it short, nearly
one-fifth of the population live below one
hundred feet; more than three-fourths be-
low one thousand feet, while nintyseven
per cent live below two thousand feet above
the sea level. The people in the lowest tier
are engaged in manufacturing and the
culture of cotton, rice and sugar. Next
above them come the grain producers and
farmers. while the aspiring population
which cannot be content with anything less
than six thousand feet occupies itﬁelflllmost
exclusively with mining. Upward as well
as westward, the star of Empire sometimes
takes its way. Between one and two thous-
and feet, the iiicrr-ase in population since
1870 has been nearly fifty per cent, and be-
tween four thousand and six thousand feet
the iiewlyawakcneil interest in mining has
caiised an increase of more than one hun-
(1I'v:l1 per cent. '

Dairy Products.
RI-‘.\'lE\V oi» 'riii-: DAIRY vi-zlui.

May 1 is regarded as the close of the dairy
year, as it marks the period when the
change from dry feed to grass products gen-
erally takes place. The yearjust closed has
lieu) characterized by great vicissitudes to
those engaged in the protluctioii and hand-
ling of the goods, and many will in the fut-
ure ref--r to it with recollection the re-
verse of pleasant. The productions of the
year are undoubtedly the largest on record,
and but for the speculative fever that
forced prices above the healthy limit,
and the dishonest greed that induced
ullpl‘lli(:1p1e(1]lllI‘tleS to engage in the pro-
duction of spurious goods, the bright prom-
ises of a large and healthy trade a year ago
would have been fully realized.

lllJ’l“T1-JR.

The receipts in Chicago for the year end-
ing April 30 ainounted to 70,200,000 lbs.,
agaiiist -')‘.l.(Jlll),llIlll lbs, shipped. The receipts
at New York for the same time were 1,639,-
U:')ll packages’ the foreign exports were
‘.’.:‘$,lit)l),llllll lbs.

It may be well to remark in this connec-
tion that the ])l‘L'FC1lL system of putting but-
ter in packages of all shapes and sizes is an
injury to the trade, and the sooner ii uniform
system is adopted and enforced by the trade
the better. If it is desirable that butter put
up for export purposes should be in 60 lbs.
packages let that be the full standard, while
the sizes for the home market could be
subdivided into halves, quarters, and
cighths, that is, 30 lbs., 1-’) lbs., and 7;
lbs. A National standard of tares and
soakage should also be agreed upon.
This would avoid confusion and disagree-
ment and enable buyers and sellers to know
exactly how they stood on those questions.
Buyers should also strictly discard all goods
not packed in conformity with the rules.
This would induce the dairymen to puttheir
stock in salable packages, just as lard, pork
and flour is packed.

The year opened with a good demand on
Eastern and foreign export account, and the
table of values given below shows that the
prices realized, although much below
those ruling later in the season, were fairly
remunerative to producers. They were
also such as Eastern and European buyers
were willing to pay, and the outward move-
ment during the early part of the year was
heavy, the exports from the city of New
York alone being for the first six months
20,277,240 lb,-5., against 8,41-l,lJ(llI lbs. for
the succeeding half of the year. The
falling off during the last half may be at-
tributed to two causes, namely, a specula-
tive movement that adyaiiced prices to a
ﬁgure that prevented foreign consumers from
buying freely, and the large increase in the
production of bogus butter from lard and
tallow. The production and exportation of
the latter, branded as butter, caused all
American goods to be regarded with distrust
and reduced its sale in foreign markets to a
mere bagatelle compared with the previous
year. But it is gratifying to state, however,
that -the recentenactment of laws compelled
the manufacturers of lard and tallow butter
to brand it as such, is doing much to restore
conﬁdence in regard to the real article, and
if prices are again reduced to figures that
Willallow a free consumption there is rea-
son to hope that this year will be a prosper-
ous one. A canvass of the sitnationjustifies
the conclusion that the stock on hand May
1 was larger than at the same date last year.
but it mainly includes low grades that can
only be sold to exporters at ‘J(iz.10c per lb.
Some of this was originally ﬁne stock that
was foolishly held for higher prices until it
depreciated to one-third its original value.

VALUE OF EXPORTS OF DAIRY PRODUO'1.'S_

In order to give an idea of the. growth of
the foreign trade of the country in butter
and cheese, we have compiled the following
table, showing the value of the exports for
10 years, ending June 30, 1880:

YEAR. BUTTER. CHEESE. TOTAL VAL,
1871, . . . . . . . . . 3 803 096 8 8 7é_32 990 8 9 583 086

187?, . . . . . . . . . 1 438 812 7 702 918 9 251 730

1873, . . . . . . . . . 902 919 10 498 010 11- 451 029

1874, . . . . . . . .. 1 092 381 11 898 995 13 091 373

1875, . . . . . . . . . 1 506 996 13 659 603 15 266 599

1876, . . . . . . . . . 1 109 696 12 270 083 13 379 579

1877, . . . . . . . . . 4 224 416 12 700 627 17 143 243
187-‘5,......... 3 930 840 14103 629 18 034 369
1879, . . . . . . . .. 5 421 20-5 12 597 968 18 000 173
1880, . . . . . . . . . 6 690 677 12 171 720 18 _862 107

Reliable authorities state that there are
about 5,000 cheese factories and creaineries
in the United States. These, however, rep-
resent only a portion of the capital engaged
in the business, as a large amount of butter
and cheese is produced and sold by farmers,
of which no account is given in the annual
statistics of production.-—Farmers’ Review
for May 19.

 
CATTLE men from round up in Indian
Territory report cattle not badly scattered
and in better condition than could be ex-
pected ; grass and waterjare plenty, and cat-
tle are taking on fat very fast. Wheat is
heading out, and corn is being cultivated.
All reports to the contrar , the Indians in
the territory are quiet, showing no disposi-
tion to create trouble. They are opening
new farms, and in every way exhibiting
their anxiety to adopt the white man’s ways.

EXAMPLES of the injury suffered by the
people, and the loss of the Government's
ability to protect the people’s rights, are not
wanting. Railway and telegraph compan-
ies become singly powerful, or powerful by
the combination of two or three or more
companies, the combination being made ex-
pressly to prevent healthy competition, and
thus create a monopoly which ‘shall be able
to'tax commerce and industry as it may

’please.——Harpera Weekly‘.

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A HALF-DAY AT THE CAPITOL.

VVe had occasion on the 18th to take a run
to Lansing. While there we dropped into
the legislative halls a few minutes. From
the huge piles of printed matter on the
desks of members one would conclude that

‘a large amount of work had somehow found
its way there. It was not apparent on the
face of things whether this matter related to
work done, or to be done. But we soon
learned that these lawmakers were either
getting tired or ashamed of staying here so
long, and meant to turn their backs on
Lansing and legislative labor about the ﬁrst
of June. The apparent reason for shutting
up the legislative mill about that time, lies
in the recollection of the verdict of the peo-
ple upon the work of the legislature of 1879,
and this body will hardly venture to pass
beyond the ﬁve months’ limit of its illus-
trious predecessor. _ _

Right or wrong, there is a prevailing
opinion among the people that there is a
large percentage of humbug about this legis-
lative business, and the opinion nowhere
prevails that ﬁve months of good honest
work was done by the legislature of 1379, or
by the present body, which will adjourn

with a large amount of unﬁnished business
on its hands—-ashamed to prolong the session
and meet the odium of a longer session than
the last. \Ve have not given their work
the attention that we had intended. We
are not disposed to deal in wholesale con-
demnation of this legislative body, or its
work, as are some individuals and some
political papers. Nor can we approve of
such a prodigal waste of time and disregard
of the public interests as have marked very
many of the weeks of the session. It is a
matter of surprise that intelligent men who
claim to be fair and honorable, can place
themselves under obligations to the railroad
interest of the country by accepting a pass
and then go home Fridays and back to meet
and adjourn the evening of the following
Monday. It can hardly be a matter of sur-
prise, however. that men who do this thing
will stultify themselves and their professions
of attachment to the cardinal principles on
which this government is founded.

With us, no amount of pettifogging can
justify the refusal of this legislature to sub-
mit to the people the constitutional amend-
ment in relation to restricting the manufac-
ture and sale of ardent spirits. The right
of a majority to govern is the bed rock
principle on which our government rests.
and those who opposed such submission
repudiated in that act their professions 01'
loyalty to our republican system of govern-
ment. To vote to submit did not carry with
it any personal obligation to advocate or
support the proposed amendment, but left
the legislator just as free to oppose its adop-
tion as its bitterest enemy. “'6 (10 110$ 396
how any honest man can justify this denial
of the right of the people to was upon 8
question that so largely affects the interests
of the country in every department of
society as does the manufacture, sale and
use of intoxicating liquors. Some Of those
other questions that were prominently
before the legislature of 1879, have received
little or no consideration.

While there has been no direct attempt
by the lawyers to capture the whole business
of foreclosure of mortgages, as was the case
two years ago, yet the indifference of a ma-
jority of the body to the importance of
ﬁxing some legal limit to the sum named in
a mortgage deed for the foreclosure of the
same, has left the people of the State ex-
posed to the liability of a sort of robbery
that falls oftenest to the lot of conﬁding,
honest men.

With plenty of money seeking investment

at six per cent., and less, this legislature
allows a sharper to exact ten per cent. from
a man if he can be got in a tight place, and
it is all right. No determined effort has
been made to ﬁx a maximum rate that
people can afford to pay. With the Pres-
ent prospect of short crops in Michigan,
and as a consequence harder times next
year, there will be more farmers borrowing
money; and with more customers, higher
rates of interest will be demanded and ob-
tained. Legislation steps in tolimit, cir-
cumscribe and restrain people in a thousand
ways, why not in this matter of interest?
The answer that it is of no use, men will
evade the law, will apply as well to any-
thing else, and if it were an argument at
all would dismiss the legislature before it
assembled. ' .

Little or nothing was done for the ﬁrst
ﬁfty days of the session, except to receive
petitions and get bills before committees.

As usual a large amount of time has been
spent in tinkering with village charters.
It‘not having come to ourknowledge by
intuition whya general law, under which
villngeo and cities could provide for their
municipal want: by their own acts, should

not be sufiicient for that purpose, we have
occasionally asked the question of members
of the legislature, as well as of common peo-
ple, and we have never been able to learn
why the interests of the 300 or 3,000 good
people of New Amsterdamlcould not be
secured or provided for under a general law
as well as by special legislation. Five hun-
dred villages of the State, inhabited by
about the same proportion of white, black
and mixed native and foreign citizens, think
they need (and are probably about right on
that proposition) some authority to create
and maintain municipal government.

Now will any man for a moment pretend
that their conditions are so widely different
that their best interests demand 500 acts of
the legislature to authorize their corporate
existence with municipal rights and obliga-
tions. And yet, with similar conditions in
every respect, and a general law on the
statute book for the incorporation of vil-
lages, the legislature is asked at each suc-
ceeding session to charter, and amend the
charters of scores of villages and cities all
over the State. These legislative bodies
don't often get: famous for industry, and yet
they will fritter away time that ought to be
valuable, on this special legislation, and
load our statute books with this useless
lumber. To us it seems that less special
legislation and more attention to the inter-
ests of the great mass of the people, is what
we want of legislators.

THREE MONTHS’ SUBSCRIBERS.

With each issue of the VISITOR we are
now compelled to part company with quite
a long list of our three months’ readers.
Though this is what we expected, still we
can’t say we like it. VVe should be much
better pleased to be able to transfer their
names to our regular list.

It someway seems to us that we might
make such transfers much more than we
are doing if our friends were a little more
vigilant.

We have endeavored to give each three
months’ subscriber a reminder with the last
number sent. This, with a fair presenta-
tion of the merits of the case, should have
given us not less than a thousand subscrib-
ers from our three months’ mailing list.
From the present outlook, we are not going
to get this number. We must renew our
invitation for those who sent us three
months’ names to devote a little time to the
cause, and try and prevail on those three
months’ friends to renew for a longer time.
A little good work judiciously applied will
pay the Subordinate Grange, and we think
for the “good of the Order” may very
properly be considered and acted upon by
the Grange. Let us have some good work
done to hold more of this class of subscrib-
ers.

We have no traps of any sort to offer as
premiums, but as large editions cost less in
proportion than smaller ones, we will send
the VISITOR the rest of the year, seven
months, for twenty-ﬁve cents to any name
and any post-oﬁice.

There has been some complaint of not
having received papers of late, and those
complaints have probably been well
founded. A statement of the _case may
help to excuse us somewhat. The capacity
of the mailing book which we had been
using for some years was exhausted, and we
commenced the first of January to enter all
renewals and new names in a new book,
checking off the renewals, and continuing
to mail to those whose subscription had not
expired from the old book. \Ve did not
wish to lumber up our new book with three
months’ subscribers, and these were entered
in a book for temporary use. This will ex-
plain why subscribers at the same office did
not get their papers at the same time.

With the rapid increase of subscriptions
we found it impracticable to write on each
paper, and we bought a new mailing
machine, and printing material to set up all
the names on our mailing book. These we
have been getting in shape as fast as we
could, and think we shall very soon have
the whole business in ﬁrst-class shape.
Though others maypnot so readily under-
stand, we can see the liability of making
mistakes was for a time much increased.
We think that liability has been removed
and this mailing business will run smoothly.
We hope those who may have missed a
number will not fail to give us notice. We
can supply back numbers to April 15th.

 
THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE.

From the standpoint of the agriculturist
it would seem that this large class ought to
have some inﬂuence with the sdministra-
tion in retaining its representative oﬂicer at
the head of this department.

The appointment of General LeDuc by
the Hayes’ administration was not satisfac-
tory to the farmers of the country, as this
class by a very short line of reasoning reach-
ed ihe conclusion that “General ” was not a
promising qualiﬁcation for the" representa-
tive of the most important interest in this
land of 50,000,000 people. But the General
proved to be a much better man for the
place than any of his predecessors and soon
showed a disposition to rescue the oiﬂce from
the politicians and develop from it some
practical knowledge that gave promise of
valuable results.

The agriculturalists of the country desired

to continue Gen. LeDuc, but he had become

obnoxious to the politicians of the country
and must go. We only hope his successor,
Dr.Geo. B. Luring, of Salem, Massachusetts,
may disappoint us in the same way that
Gen. Lel)uc did, by attending more to the
duties of his oﬁice than to the politics of the
country.

MULCHING.

Though not running the agricultural
department, we have a word to say about
mulching.

The dry spell has invited us to look back-
ward and see how much good might ha“?
been done by a little seasonable work. The
value ofa good mulch around young trees,
whether recently set or not, we can clearly
see. Few thought of it at the time it should
have been done and took such security on
the season as to guarantee an unbroken
growth for its full length. To mulch now,
will require some preparatory labor to secure
good results. The ground about the tree
should be broken up with a garden fork or
spade and pulverized before applying mulch.
Every farmer knows his sod ground does
not retain moisture like his plowed field,
and that his corn ground must be frequently
cultivated in a dry time to prevent the corn
from drying up

When ground settles down and becomes
hard it has some of the conditions ofa brick,
very porous as well as very dry, and if water
is turned on to it while in that condition it
very soon dries out, as the air enters these
pores and rapidly absorbs any moisture that
it may ﬁnd. When ground is pulverized,
these air passages are all broken up and des-
troyed, and the air does not circulate so
freely through it to carry off the moisture.

All young trees should be thoroughly
mulched in the spring while the ground is
wet, then if the job is well done the owner
may have little apprehension of loss of trees,
always provided the work of setting out has
been well done. This severe drouth, reports
of which come to us from every direction,
will soon demand of those who have young
trees some extra attention to save life as well
as encourage growth, and it will pay to dig
around the trees, mulch liberally and water
occasionally. Probably not more than half
the trees that are set out for shade and orna-
ment live and do well, and generally for two
reasons: First, when set, too little ground
has been broken up and pulverized. Sec-
ondly, the ground is not well mulched in
season around the tree, if at all.

For mulch we have always used half- rotten
straw, because it was more convenient.
Fresh cut grass is good to mulch astraw-
berry bed to keep down the weeds and keep
the fruit clean. It will settle down and not
blow about like straw. Try it.

 
WE had occasion to visit Chicago last week
for a day, to help out with some of our mail-
ing arrangements. \Vhile there we found
time to call on Bro. Thomas Mason. Found
him very busy looking out for the Straw-
berry trade. Don’t know when Southern
Illinois berry growers pick their berries, but
twenty-one car loads of berries were on the
track at daylight Monday morning the 23d.
Over two cars had been consigned to Bro.

, Mason, and at 10 o’clock in the forenoon,

having been at work since before day-light,
he had worked his stock down to less than
a dozen cases, those first sold bringing the
best prices. The market had opened at $3.00
a case, and run down to $2.25 in four hours.
Bro. Mason claims to receive more berries
than any other commission house in Chica-
go, and that gives him the advantage in sell-
ing, as the largest buyers seek the largest
lots, where they can get their wan ts supplied
with the least trouble and waste of time.

These are good indications that he will
succeed in spite of all opposition. His busi-
ness has had such a healthy growth that he
has been compelled each year to move to
get more room—more spacious quarters, and
he is now as well established and favorably
known as any man on the street.

We called on our old friends, Montgom-
ery Ward 00. Found them at their old
place of business on Wabash Avenue, with
a large stock of goods on hand, which a
large force of lady and gentlemen clerks as
of old,were marking, packing, and shipping
to all parts of the country. They insist
that their standing oﬂ‘er to send goods C. O.
D. and allow an examination at the oﬂice of
the express company before accepting
should be satisfactory to the party ordering.

Whatever others are now doing there is
no doubt this ﬁrm by their pioneer work
and immense distribution of catalogues of
goods and prices for so many years,did more
than any other in the country to awaken a
spirit of enquiry and open the eyes of farm-
ers. They are still having a large trade.

 
A SUBSCRIBER has either mistaken our bus-
iness or has a mistaken idea of what we
know about farming, as he asks us to tell
him “ how to preserve eggs so they will keep
until winter, by the llmed process wanted
for the New York market.” Will some one
who knows, please answer?

 
WE are well pleased to ﬁnd some of our
inﬂuential city papers are found on the side
of the people, as they are coming to under-
stand the absolute necessity of making an
effort to regain rights which have been ab-
sorbed by giant corporations. Carefully
read articles on our third and fifth pages.

IMPORTANT‘ MEETING.

The Executive Committee of the State
Agricultural Society meet at Lansing
\/Vednesday, the 1st of June, and by invita-
tion of‘ the State Board of Agriculture will
meet at the Agricultural College on Thurs-
day forenoon, together with the Executive
Committee of the State Poinological Society.
The oﬂicers of the State Grange an(l its
Executive Committee are also invited.

THE slrz'l:e in the Senate of the United
States the other day surprised the country,
because, though strikes are common with
common people, yet they seldom occur
where the einploye is getting $3,000 per
annum, with a liberal margin of liberty to
run around and neglect his business. In
this case it looks as though big men could
bite their own noses offas easily as common
fellows, and with a pretext far more ridic-
ulous.

R. E JAM}-ZS, of Kalamazoo, has gone to
Ohio to introduce a new spring-tooth liar-
row, and as we understand, a new plan of
selling has been determined upon by the
company he represents, that is of special in-
terest to Patrons.

Do not overlook the summer meeting of
the Michigan Horticultural Society, at Ben-
ton Harbor. See third page.

"A NOTEWORTHY CHANGE OF'A PROMINENT
COMMISSION HOUSE.”

The house of Thomas Mason, general
commission merchant, is generally recog-
nized as representative in its special line of
business, and any item in reference to this
ﬁrm must prove of interest to all who ship
to this market. In order to meet the in-
creasing business of the house and to facili-
tate the receipts and shipment of the large
and numerous consignments that are en-
trusted to the care of the house, Mr. Mason
has been obliged to seek more commodious
and convenient quarters, and this he has
found at No. 181 South Water street, not
far from his old stand, where, with a front-
age of 28 feet on the sidewalk on South
VVater street, and equally as large a space
on No. 10 LaSalle street, which communi-
cates with the house, he is enabled to dis-
play and handle the numerous products
under his charge with advantage and proﬁt
to consignors. The building occupied is four
stories in height, is dry, airy, bri ht, and
capacious, and is admirably adapte to facil-
itate the storage and sale of the products of
the farm and dairy.

Mr. Mason takes a peculiar pride in ob-
taining for patrons the very highest ruling
market prices; in fact we have known him
during the fruit season keenly and intelli-
gently to observe the total receipts of fruit
for a day, and judging the wants of pur-
chasers by the actual supply on hand, obtain
from buyers from ﬁve to twenty per cent
higher ﬁgures than his competitors in bus-
iness Mr. Mason is not guided in his bus-
iness operations by what others may do or
not do. As an intelligent and far-seeing
merchant, he knows the probable demand
and the actual supply on hand, and adapts
himself to circumstances. This is the prov-
ince of the true, shrewd commission mer-
chant. It is a simple matter for any man
or set of men to sell goods at current quota-
tions, but he who manages by his skill,
foresight, and comprehension, to measure
correctly the wants of a community and its
outlying territory, and either by quickly
disposing or holding off for a reasonable
period the products in his care, so as to
obtain generally higher ﬁgures than the
mass of commission men, is indeed, in
every sense of the word, a gifted business
man, and deserves the patronage of all who
desire the highest obtainable prices for their
consignments. We are but testifying to
the general appreciation entertained for this
gentleman when we state that he is the em-
bodiment of all these requisites and ster-
ling qualities.

Go on South VVater street ere the sun has
ﬂecked the horizon with its brilliant light,
and the careful observer will ﬁnd Mr. Mason
busy arranging and planning the business
of the day. and preparing for the receipts
and their expeditious sale; whilst others
engaged in the same line of business are
still in the arms of Morpheus, the deity
devoted to sleep, he is busy, active, vigilant,
and enterprising. Can our readers wonder
why such indomitable energy should be
successful in business, why he should often
make quicker and more proﬁtable returns
than others we could name? Not at all;
success in the busy strife of competition can
be only obtained by unceasing vigilance, by
studious attention to the interests of patrons,
by the practice of legitimate business meth-
ods, and bv the observance of the strictest
integrity. We feel proud of Mr. Mason,
not so much because of his success as a
commission merchant, but because of his
institution of sensible business methods,
and also because of the watchful interest be
bestows upon each and every consignment,
no matter whether large or small, or whetli-
er from new friends or old patrons.—C’/uZc-
ago Farmers’ Review.

This looks well for Brother Mason. He
seems to be big enough to cope with
Chicago business men.

 
The New Bible.

This is truly the age of progress, and from
the days when the Bible was known only to
the learned few, it has reached_ that period
when Bibles are about to become as cheap
and plentiful as nawspapers. An enterpris-
ing New York ﬁrm is publishing the new
translation of the New Festament complete
for ten cents, the tour Gospels for seven
cents, each Gospel for two cents, and an
ele ant edition in Turkish morocco, with
hot the new and the old version on paiges
facing each other, for one dollar and a half.
Shades of Faust and Guttenberg! What
wonderful strides in the printers’ art since
the age of your illustrious lives!

 
FOUR lawyers, two litigants, 18 witnesses,
one. justice, ﬁve jurymen and a dog labored
at Pittsford all of one day last week to, settle
a sheep killing suit, and the ury left it “ as
it was ”—-could’t agree. alue of sheep

$1.75, costs $45.50.

 
JUNE 1, 1331.

Adulieration oi Food.

We continue our extracts from the paper
of George '1‘. Angeli of Boston :

Now take cream of tartar. used for cook-
ing. A Boston chemist tells methat he has
found seventy-ﬁve per cent. of *‘ terra alba ”
in what was sold as cream of tartar. VVhat
is“terra alba”? White earth, that looks
like fiour,broughttoour cities by the ship
load for purposes of adulteration. It com-
monly sells at from one to two cents a
pound, and is used to doctor sugars; also by
confectioners, spice mills, baking powder
manufacturers, the. Itis sometimes mixed
with niaplesugurs. \\'hat are its eifects? I
am told by an eminent ghysician that it
tends to produce stone, kidney complaints,
and various diseases of the stomach. A
large New York house sells three grades of
cream _of tartar. A Boston chemist analyz-
ed a sample of the best grade and found
50 per cent. of terra albain that.

Agrocer who has been fifteen years in the
business states, in the Sanitary Engineer of
March 1, 1880, that probably not one sample
of cream ot' tartar in twenty sold by grocers
is pure, and refers to one case in which
analysis showed it to contain ninety per
cent. of terra alba.

Mrs. Richards, before named, recently
analyzed in Massachusetts 160 samples of
cream of tartar. She found 47 consisted
largely of terraalba, and nine almost wholly
of term alba.

Dr. Kedzie, president of the Michigan
State Board of He-alth,'recently analyzed
ﬁve samples of cream of tartar,whicli varied
from eight to 86 pei- cent. adulteration.

PICKLES AND VINEGAR.

“ Ifyou want good pickles,” says Profes-
sor Johnson in his paper befo_re quoted,
“you had better make them, for they are
not easy to buy at economical rates; ” and
he adds: " In making pickles for the mar-

ket, such as you may eat with your oysters,

at the common restaurant, dilute sulphuric
acid (oil of vitriol) is used in place of most,
of the vinegar; and a dose of copper is ad-
ministered in the shape of verdigris or blue
vitriol, while alum is of course added in
liberal measure. If eaten in any considera-
ble quantity they are dangerous, not only
because they are indigestible, but because
they are loaded with metallic poison.”

_ Professor Mariner and Dr. Piper both tes-
tify that they have stopped using them.
Professor Mariner says he has in several
cases found sugar of lead in vinegar, and in
various cases pickles poisoned with lead and
copper, and he now uses lemon juice and
fruit acids instead.

Dr_. Piper says that verdigris is used in
makinggreen pickles, and sugar of lead in
making yellow pickles, which are quite as
dangerous. He writes me October 14, 1879,
that the head of a large drug store in Chica-
go tells him that one pickle factory buy of
them subacetate of lead in quantities of ﬁve
gallons at a time; and the same drug house
sells verdigris to pickle-men to be used in
making green pickles. I find in the report
of Massachusetts State Board of Health of
1873, that ten out of 12 samples of pickles,
put up by 12 different wholesale dealers, ten
were found to contain copper, and nine to
contain also alum.

The author of "Food Adulteration,” be-
fore quoted, says that it is within bounds to
say that not one ofthe very green cucumber
pickles found in grocery shops is free from
copper.

The New York Tribune of December 24,
1880, says: “The death of Rebecca lsaacs,
aged 13, from eating poisoned pickles, was
reported yesterday at the coroner’s oiiice.”

I have recently seen a case of severe pois-
oning ofa family in New York City from
eating chow-chow.

_The Scientvgﬁc American stated some time
since that probably half the vinegar sold
in New York City groceries is rank poison.

NOTICES OF MEETINGS.

Annual County Picnic.

The annual picnic of Branch county will
be held on the fair ground at Cold water on
VVednesday, the 8th of June. This annual
picnic has become an established institution
of this county, this being the eighth.
Though under the management of Patrons,
it has become a matter of interest to hund-
reds of our farmers, and to them, as well as
to all our citizens, we renew a cordial invi-
tation to attend. As heretofore we shall
have good music and speakers to instruct
those present, as well as give us a day of
recreation. The meeting will be called to
order at 11 o'clock.

Owing to the small attendance of the May
meeting of the Clinton County Pomona
Grange, the subject of incorporating said
Grange was postponed until the June meet-
ing, which will be held at the hall of Water-
town Grange the 15th inst. All members of
the Grange are requested to be present so
that this important action can be taken.

Fraternally.
FRANK CONN,
Secretary.

Th'e next meeting of District Grange No.
17 will be held at the hall of Paradise
Grange. No. 638, 17 miles by rail south of
Traverse City, June 15 and 16, opening at 10
A. M. the ﬁrst day. The meeting will be en-
tertained by Paradise Grange. AI'l fourth-
degree members are cordially invited to at-
tend. Come out, Patrons, and keep the
Grange car rolling on.

Traverse City. S. H. HYDE, Sec’y.

St. Joseph County Grange will meet at
Centerville Thursday, June 2. It will be a
meeting of special interest to those having
wool to dispose of or those wishing to bu
implements. A cordial invitation is exteu -
ed to ‘all fourth-degree members. Turn out.
Patrons, for this will probably be the last
full meeting until after harvest.

Fraternally yours,
CHAS. W. SHELDON, Sec’y.

The next regular meeting of Allegan
County Council will be held at Trowbridge
Grange hall on Tuesday, the 7th of June
next. All fourth-degree members are cor-
dially invited to attend. Es ially are
those. invited who are interested in shipping
this year's clip of wool.

Fraternally yours,
M. V. B. MCALPINE, ~
Seo’y Allegan Co. Council.


JUNE 1, 1881.

EEEEE

 
spans.-as masses.

The Anti-Monopoly Meeting.

The anti-mono ly meeting in Music Hall
last night, like t c one recently held in
Cooper Institute, New York, brought men
together for a common purpose, who have
for many years past been able in public mat-
ters to do little more than agree to disagree.
The signﬁcance of these gatherings will
hardly be overlooked by the shrewd gentle-
men whose statesmenship begins and ends
with party organization. Experience has
taught them to expect the smashing of some
part ofthe political machinery, when intelli-
gent men, who have been acting in opposi-
tion, are drawn together by the feeling that
a great public interest is being sacrificed be-
tween t e apparently rival, but frequently
confederated sets of wire~pu!lers who oper-
ate under the chief party names.

aparty sincerely to the rescue of popular ‘
sovereignty from the hands of adventurers

j who have usurped it, but they are resolved
g to make a partv that will do so if need be;

and whether there is need or no they mean

i to ascertain with the utmost possible certain— »

Such .

movements, like that against slavery, either .
compel an essential change in the attitude ,

of one of the parties, or ultimate in the rise
of a new body composed of elements drawn
from the old divisions. This a.iiti-monopo-
ly agitation cannot be stopped until the ob-
jects are accomplished. There are no arts
of rhetoric or appeals to frothy passions

: and traitors aside and one: more stand stur-

whlch willperinaneiitly prevailagainst the g

determination to subject every corporation
in the United States to the common welfare.

obscured. Every day the thoughtful men

of the country are being brought to see that 5

more pressing than any other question is
this one:

masters or the servants of the public? ’l‘o

Shall the corporations be the '

defer the struggle which this inquiry points 
to, is but to strengthen the evils complained ‘

of and make their eradication impossible.
Not to recognize the necessity for the attack
is to be blind to the most obvious facts in
thelegislation of our time.

The railroads corporations in particular
have pressed forward steadily to the goal
of supremacy over all the other interests
centered in our government. They own
the senate of this State and apparently of
the United States. We get whatever legis-
lation they assent to, and none which they
oppose. So far, at least, as the internal
commerce of this and the neighboring com-
monwealths of Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sey are concerned, the notion that popular
inﬂuences shape the laws is a childish
delusion. Under such circumstances, to talk
about putting off the contest till a more con-
venient season, as Mr. Beecher did a few
months ago, is simply to urge delay in the
interest of the enemy. If. indeed, the men
who appreciate the foothold already secured
and the tendency to strengthen it, should
post one the conﬂict, who will pretend that
in the interval the gain would be on the
side of the people? Will it be any easier to
effect reform after the corporations have
doubled their wealth, extended their inﬂu-
ence into a thousand new departments of
industry, habituated constituences to terror-
ism and corruption,and made our politicians
so familiar with prostitution that those who
refuse bribes and denounce the takers of
them will be regarded as wild theorists or
bilious disturbers ofanaturalarrangement?
No man in his senses can be in doubt as to
the propiiety of dealing with the evil now,

and of lifting it to the first rank in our poli- ‘

tics.

That, at all events, we take it, is the opin-
of the gentlemen who have enrolled them-
selves as members of the Anti-Monopoly
League of this city and New York. They
would be very glad to see either the Demo-
crats or Republicans address themselves as

3: concerned it seems to us there is little to be
, hoped for.

. avowed ally of every monopoly of import-

ty, without much delay. As we understand
it, the feeling is that the Democracy is pow-
ei-less, and the Republicans are bound hand
and foot in the service of the monopolists. It
is at least doubtful whether the Democrats,
under their present leadership, can be de-
pended upon to do anything of an adequate
nature. The mass ofthe party is, of course,
sound enough. With all its faulis, the
Democrat party has this one enormous virt-
ue: It is composed in the main of men who
do the hard work of the country, and are
therefore directly interested in maintaining
the (l-'Ctl‘llle of political equality, with all
that it implies. Yet they too have fallen
victims to the wire puller and the political 3
trickster. Can the plain, honest manhood
of the party sweep these trimmers, traders,

dily, as itdid in the early days for the sover- ;
eighty of the people, for the dignity of

manhood, for the rights of labor, for a fair
ﬁeld and no special favors to any body? \Ve
will not at present undertake to answer this 1

 question, though we have no hesitation i
The plainissue is made up, and cannot be ;

whateverin saying that if this l.lpi‘iHii]g does
not take place shortly within the Democrat-
ic foid, the party will at an early day be
numbered with the things that were. Here
are the new issues, and if the Democracy %
cannot deal with them the party must be !
unceremoniously buried.

So for as the Republican organization is

It has had the power, but it has
used it systematically tor the building
up of the monopolies. It is to-day the

ance in the country. It is at the present
moment in complete charge of the judic-
iary, the legislative, the executive
and the administrative authority of this
State, and the spectacle presented is that of
unprecedented subserviency to the Gouids
and Vanderbilts of New York.

Perhaps in the history of American cor-
ruption a more ﬂagrant betrayal of the pub-
lic interest is not to be found than we had
at Albany last week, when for the benefit
of the railroads, 15 Republican Senators
voted aganist giving the people a opportuni-
ty to say whether they would make the ca-
nals free or not. Hypocrisy, it is said, is
the homage which vice pays to virtue, but
even that pretence of deference was with-
held in this case. The question was wheth-
er the people sliouid be permitted to exer-
cise their constitutional right to amend the
constitution, and upon that 15 Senators vot-
ed no. because, had the right been extended
and the d« c sion been for free canals, as in
all probability it would, the railroads com-
panies would have been constrained to low-
er their freight rates. What is to be expect-
ed from a party whose representatives have
the hardihood to so brazenly place them-
selves like a wall of defense around the
wrongs which the people demand to have
redressed? It seems to us not doubtful that
the uprigiit Republican, who looks _to
his party for reform against the monopolies
will know in time the bitterness of disap-
pointment. The knave is merely conjuring
with the Republican name. He pipes the
old tune and the unsuspecting peasant dan-
ces. The rank and ﬁle are in this matter
not unlike the common soldiers who, hav-
ing at Napoleon’s command defended the

l

French Repubiic,at his command also struck
it down, supposing that inasmuch as they
were obeying Napoleon all the time, they
were forwarding the purpose which was
dear to them at the beginning. Men change
and parties change, and the jugglery of
politics consists in making the mass of
men believe that there is no change.
This country owes a great debt to the
liberty-loving, loyal men who organized

and, in its younger days, composed the bulk .

of the Republican party; but it owes only
antagonism to the sciiemers who now trade
upon the name, as the pirates of old used to
sail under decoy ﬂags.

Our Republican friends will, we appre-

hend, have to mv-aka up their minds that the 

evils which have grown up under the party
in power will not be cured till it is over-
thrown. The very fact that a. distinctive
movement is being fostered by them, is of
itself proof that there is something rotten
in their political Denmark.

Itought in this relation to be borne in
mind that there is no war proposed upon
corpora‘ ions as such. These merchants who

, are most active in this movement are not

blind to the advantages which the country
reaps from corporate capital justly used.
The war is upon abuses. Its purpose is to
make the man who handles $100,000,000 of

" stock, live subject to the law made by the

people, as much as the man who trunsacts
the humble-it kind of legitimate business.
There is nothing proposed that will pre-
vent the building of railroads or the con-
struction of telegraph lines. What is aimed
at is to prevent the controllers of these en-
terprises from emasculating all the other
enterprises and industries of the country.
Nobody desires to see impoverished railroad
corporations, or to have those who honestly
invest in them deprived of a fair return on
their capital, or a reasonable compensation
for the risk they run.
(ion is to err on the side of generosity. It
is, however, a different matter when corpor-
ations are so managed as to present the
spectacle of fortunes of hundreds of mil-
lions wrung by a few men out of the indust-
ry of the country, and the political rights of
the people assailed with corrupt weapons,
to the end that the work of plunder may go
on unchecked. To this it is proposed to ob-
ject. To this, objection is decidedly made,
and on this line there is going to be a strug-
to the death, if it takes ﬁfty summers.

We observe that on the platform last 
night were such old time Republicans as ‘

Messrs. L. E Chittenden, 14‘. B. Thurber,
Darwin R. James, John F. Henry and
Bernard Peters side by side with equally
old Democrats like William Marshall, ex-
Judge Morris and Thomas Kinsella. When
veterans of a hundred battles like these find
that the time has come for them to make
common cause against a public enemy, it is
evident that "events are in the saddle and
ride mankind.” —Brook/yn Daily Eagle,
May 6.

 
NEW YORK has already
society, and there are those in our midst
malicious enough to suggest, that if the
Street Commissioners could only be fur-
naced at once, other citizens of this great
metropolis might havea new lease of life.
This is rather sarcastic upon the City
Fathers of Gotham. But the grumblers are
always abroad, and in spite of them all,
New York is still one of the merricst places

its crematory '

Indeed, the disposi- I

on this side of the Atlantic, and may her 5

domains and her pleasures never grow less!

I

Glnrreapn

ndenti.

From a New Grange.
Bro. Cobb .-—I have watched in vain for a 3
word in the VISITOR from our Grange, and j
failing to ﬁnd one, I will send a short re- '
port, that brother and sister Patrons may
know of the existence of Silver Creek ‘
Grange, No. 644. \Ve were organized April
11, ’Si, by Bro. Steele, Chaplain of the State -
Grange. \Ve then had 16 charter members:
now we have 18 members in full, with 8.!
class of four candidates on the floor. \Vc ‘
think our prospects are good for a prosper- ;
oiis Grange. Of course we find some oppo- ‘
sition, but that does not alarm us at all. We
are expecting to make arrangements for a
lecture from Brother Whitney some time in
the near future. We also expect to purchase
a site and build a hall soon. Poverty is our
greatest drawback, but with brave, true
hearts and willing hands, we propose to
work for the good of our noble Order. \Ve 3.
are at present holding our meetings in a
schoolhouse. but we look forward with much .
happy anticipation to the time when we‘,
shall see the “lights from Patrons‘ Hall.”
Manton, Mich., May 2-1, ’8i. L. A. s.

 
Plasler——Crops—-Secreiaries’ Work.

_lVorlhy Sec’_y :--As none of our members ’
wished to spend any time with plaster, the 3
plaster trade was put into the hands of R. s
B. Grant, an enterprising merchant of!
Coloma, and he has now sold over one
hundred tons of Day & ’l‘a.y1or’s plaster, the !
largest amount ever shipped to this placei
from those mills.- ;

I am instructed to say that in the imme- ’
diate vicinity of Coloma, Berrien county, }
wheat is looking very well, much better-
than in other parts of the county, and more i
than half an average crop will be harvested, -
from present outlook. Fruit of all kinds
bids fair.

Really, I am afraid E. M. V. took my
suggestions on Secretaries’ work too liter- ,
ally. Surely he [I wager E. M. V. is a man] .
did not think I would exclude any good‘
thought, or suggestion, because not nicely .
arranged or dressed up in hifalutin language. l
But as what is “sauce for the goose is sauce l
for the gander,” if it is “proper work” for 
the Secretary to dress up said ideas, why 1
not “proper work” for the movers also to
try how well and concisely ideas may be
expressed? and if that is not beginning
right, where shall we begin ? Certainly we
should not depend on the Secretary, or any
other officer, to perfect our individual work.
If one has good ideas, how can he develop
them without thought? Studying means
to properly develop crude ideas and will
very naturally bring out a proper expres- i
sion. I can't see what the experience ofj
“Bill” has to do with the Secretary's work. 3

Just as “humbly” as ever, i
MRS. HELEN FINCH. 1

Coloma, May 20th, 1881. l
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I

 
lnleresiing Notice.

Bro. Cobb :—Grattan Grange is initiating '
a class of 18 young people. They are an in- l
teiligent looking class, and I trust that they 
will make good Patrons. What Grange can 1
do better than this? AUNT KATE. |

vtuiuiit YOUR Homes!

Kalsomine for Walls.
Condemned.

4

Stucco, Hard Finish and White-
wash the Only Wall
Finish Favored.

air.

The House Must Breathe and be
Cleansed by Air Passing
Through its Walls.

Eight Cubic Feet of Air Passes
Through Every Square
Yard of Proper Wall
Each Hour.

Arsenical Wall Paper.

A Letter from Prof. R. C. Kedzie
to the Alabastine Company
after Anal zing and
Testing A abastine.

In a lecture delivered by R. C. Kedzie,
M. D.. President of the Michigan State
Board of Health, reprinted by the State
Board of Health from the annual report of
the Michigan State Board of Agricultural
for the year 1877, the Professor says :

VENTILATE YOUR HOMES.

Veutilate every room in your house. I
ask you to do this, ﬁrst, because there is
plenty of raw material for this purpose;
and, second, because it is necessary for
health. Think what an abundant circulat-
ing medium—curreut-cy—wc have for this
very purpose in atmospheric air. Fortu-
nately. Congress cannot expand or con-
tract the circulating cu/rreucy of life!
This ocean of a.ir——an ocean without island
or shore, with its restless tides and cur-
rents, its waves of continental size——is too
vast and pure for us to contaminate it in
mass. We may pollute here and there a.
puddle of it, but its massive purity is, like
the love of God, too great for human de-
fliement. This purifying element pene-
trates, directly or indirectly, every ﬁbre
of our being ; it washes, puriﬁes, and saves
us every moment of our lives, from birth
to burial Yet how we ﬁght against this’
agent of purity i In the arrangements of
our dress, in parlor and bed-chamber, in
school-room, church, and hail, we seek to
exclude it, and tostiﬂe it as if it were our
deadly foe. We breathe it only because
we must, and most of us breathe it as lit-
tle as possible. Thousands of consump-
tivcs every day go weeping to their graves
only because ey would not breathe

eno air to k th it lungs
twig. Piiet this urifﬁgg info ‘an

element is ever aoekﬁig to enter our dwel-
lings. rattling at our windows,  _
«every crack and opening bywhioh to enter‘

your

 
l

ito give us life and health ; but if by chance
it enters, we only complain of the draught ;
iii any friend opens a. door or window to
riot in this cheerful guest, we sarcastically

The Use of Paper’ Paint and lask him if “ he was brought up in a barn 1",
J Air, once breathed, is unﬁt to’ breathe

-again ; turn it out tograss, like Nebuchad-

nezzar, that it may recover its soundness, 9
for vegetable life repairs the deﬁlement

and destruction caused by animal life, and

restores sweetness and health to polluted

But this contamination of air by res-

piration is invlsible ; neither sight nor

touch will reveal its presence.
and sooty carbon, when it has seized its
two wings of oxygen, becomes totally in-
visible, and ﬂoats unseen like a spirit. Ii
this carbon, thrown off from our lungs in
the form of carbonic acid, remained visible
like lampblack, there is hardly a house-
wife in the land who would not awake Withl
a gasping shudder to see her bed-room‘-
ﬁllcd with this black smoke sent off from
the lungs of the sleepers.
windows, and clear out this horrible black
dust I" But because this dirt is invisible,
she regards the air of her room as clean.
But though it lurk unseen, its power for
mischief is not destroyed ; it is the accom-
‘paniment and evidence of contamination
which proves the unﬁtness of such air for
respiration.
a slow poison, and kills with indeﬁnite
warning."
hands in water, she does not say, "the
water does not look very dirty, and I can
use it again."
remove dirt, and has thereby become dirty,
and she throws it away. Shall she wash
her hands five or six times a day with
clean water, and wash her lungs 28,000
times a. day with dirty air ? “ Be ye clean"
is the voice f.rom heaven, sounding forever
through the ages.
temples of God: “if any man deﬁle the
temple of God, him shall God destroy,” is
a physical as well as a. spiritual truth, and
millions upon millions of premature graves
bear witness to a judgment-day already
come, and to a doom from which not even
the Infinite Father's love could deliver
them. . “ The soul that siuneth shall die,”
unless saved by Christ’s love. -No less
true is it that the body that sinneth shall
die; and to justify this broken law and
make it honorable, no Savior ha.s.been
cruciﬁed. If, while locked in the arms of
sleep—th_e twin brother of death-you
constantly breat-he deadly gases, instead
of the breath of life, then shall sleep hand
you over to the embrace of his twin
brother.

‘But you will say “How can we tell
whether the air of our bed-rooms is pure
or not ? We are not chemists to analyze
the air.
the best apparatus in the world, and one
given you for that very purpose. Nature
has given everyone of you a. nose, and
purposely placed it in advance of all the
rest of the body to give warning of danger :
it is the advance-guard of safety I If you
will use this “one talent" which nature
has given you, and not " keep it wrapged
wing in a na kin," you maytﬁlos safely.. se

cased nose for pin-pose
marrow morning to test the air of your
bed-room. gWhen you get up, leave your

or

The black

inpz that life is a
less load.
But; you will

“Up with the house.

tratin uality of
The carbonic acid itself “is g q

If the house-wife wash her
ever poor. But

No! the water was used to

constitutions of
reeds.” The

Your bodies are the
down to the time

“ the days of our
fourscore, yet is

away.”

tilated because

('

Why, man i woman ! You have

moment's notice.

  
sentence when you and your bedmate
compare notes at breakfost, and to draw
your own conclusions.
ment by all means, and see how much
your nose can tell you.
give you some idea of the cause of our
waking with a headache and languor, feel-

when you carry such a crushing and need-

There is notaventilator in my house.”
No ventilator! while that is one of the
ﬂrst things to provide for in planriinga.
What did you build your house
for, to live in, or smother in ? Judged by
what men aim at in housebuilding, we
should conclude the houses are mainly
planned for smothering. But thanks to
poor carpentry, which leaves cracks and
openings everywhere, thanks to the pene-

noortar, wood and everything of which
houses are built, except metals and glass,
every house has some ventilation, how-

we need by some more direct means to
cast an anchor of hope into the ocean of
life out-doors. An old writer says, “ when
men lived in houses of reeds they had

houses of oak they have constitutions of
patriarch before the ﬂood
whose life stretched out into centuries,
was a. dweller in tents: when we come

tent to dwell in ceiled houses, we are told
ten ; and if by reason of strength they be

sorrow ; for it is soon cut off and we ﬂy
Is this the ﬁnal verdict in the
great chancery suit of Tent versus House ?

Look around yourneighborhood and see
how many men lived in vigorous health
while they lived in poor houses, well ven-

wealth accumulated and they built good
houses they sickened and died. You say, '
“how sad that neighbor Jones, who was

halo and hearty all his life, just after he;
moved into his new house should die and

leave all he worked so hard to secure I". _
Yes, thanks to the skill of carpenter and 9- 100111, 117 1330011195 1111‘86- The 9119011-
mason, he smothered at last. 1

Every bod-room has or should have a
window ; and when you open the window
you will ﬁnd the out-door air immediately
on the outside, and ready to enter at a.

to. clean night air. I do not ask you to open am

Try the experi-
Perhaps it may

draught of cold air.

burden. It is a burden

out-doors.

say, “What can I do?

sweet.”

tion is and does.

air which pierces brick,

this is not enough, and

oak; when they live in

tilator at all.

when men left the airy
years are threescore and
their strengt labor and

not

poorly built, but when lighted candle.

wall, he says :

“But we shallfreeze

bed-room just as it was ; go out into the Y011-  A blast 01 001d 11-11‘ 11111)’
pure morning air and breathe that till your 5W01‘d. Says A11‘o’115 51111111-
nose is wide awake, and then go back and § ,
take a few mugs of your bed_,.0Om ah. ; cured in every room, however badly co_n- I .
if it smells fresh and Sweet, like 0ut_d00,. striicted : take a. board four inches wide ;regu1a1-intervals,while the spaces between
air you have good ventilation and have ‘havmg Stmlght edgesv saw of; “ P1098 lust
brcathed the breath of life al1’the night. ‘‘‘51°’3‘r‘%' 35 Your Window 15 Wldev 13459 the
But if it is 01059, musty and sickenin 110WeI‘SI1Sh and D13-C_0 the bOaI‘d edgewise ‘lath.o The reason of this becomes evident
‘wen I-11 leave you to ﬁnish that , under the sash. which is then to be shut ‘on reﬂection,
’ ' ldown upon the board ; this will leave an ‘permitting the
“ opening between the upper and lower sash
by which the fresh air will enter
room with an upward motion,
to mingle with the warmer air a
of the room, thus saving you from afhind
You may thus draw a.
certain amount of fresh air from that
bountiful storehouse of God,—the vast!
Ventilate your bed-room be-
cause the body relaxed in sleep is then‘
most liable to the inﬂuence of dc rcssin § _
lcauses. Ventilatc ; and “ when tliou liesgbl ‘ Y0‘! thus 593 how admlrably 3‘ plastered
‘down thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thomwau 15 ﬁtted to make “F9 “'‘’-n‘? of 3
lshalt lie down’ and thy sleep shah behcalthy dwelling, bec_ausc.it permits the
free passage of air, without causing
gdraughts or unhealthy currents. Let us
see how this wall-respiration may be af-
fected by some common practices.
often asked, What is the inﬂuence of wall
paper on the heaithfulness of a room?

Some degree of ventilation may be se-

WHAT Is VENTILATION ?

Let us get a clear idea. of what ventila-
Ventilation is the ex-
change of air in any given space so that
the air is continually replaced by air from
elsewhere, just as the wind continually
changes the air in any place exposed to‘P11iJ01‘-
its sweep, for venlua means wind. Your
room is ventilated when the vitiated air
therein is constantly replaced by fresh air
from out-doors, just as it is when a. gentle
breeze blows through the room. It does
not mean a small "ventilator ” placed up
in the wall of your room, with a.
cord and tassel attached to the register,
for the air may not pass through this ven-
In about nine cases out of
ten you will ﬁnd that mortar and dirt have
fallen into the ventilating shaft so as to
prevent the passage of air. Examine your
ventilators by holding a candle ﬂame near
the opening and see whether a healthy
gimbiet hole would not be as good a ven-
ti1ai:or,—whether your artistic and orna-
mental ventilator, your breeze-maker, is

" As idle as a painted shi

Upon a painted ocean.’

In speaking of materials for a. house, 1
after illustrating with a. blow-pipe jet and‘

The amount of air that will pass through
this diminutive surface is small, but when
we come to apply it to the dimensions of

ments of Professors Marker and Shultz
show that the passage of air through

brick walls is by no means diﬁlcuit. The
difference of 20° F. in temperature be-
tween out-door and in-door air will cause
the passage of about eight cubit feet of air

yourthe part of ii. ﬁlter tc..the air.

deposited.

Let us test this question by

ors of wall paper, ﬁlls the pores
green

it.

mcable by air.

ter.

long. ”-

same as whitewash.

5

. quarterly meeting

, without further notice.

kill 111168: behind such a. plastered surface can be

readily determined by the broad bands of
comparatively white surface, the lath, by
the whitish lines crossing the joists at

the lath containing only plaster, are seen
by the narrow and dark lines between the

The plastered surface while
passage of air, arrests the
passage of all solid bodies, and thus acts
_ The air‘
031151118 117 holds a ﬁne dust in suspension at all times,
t the top lwhich dust will be ﬁltered out and left he-
, when this air passes through a. plas-
,terded wall: where the air passes most
rapidly, the most dust will be deposited
on our filter, and where less air passes, a
‘corresponding less omount of dust will be

whether air will readily pass through wall
I place a piece of wall paper over
the bowl of this pipe and try to blow air
through it ; you see the ﬂame is only very
feebiy swayed, butif Iuse this ﬁlter paper
in the same way I readily blow out the
ﬂame. 9The sizing used to lay on the col- I

paper so as to nearly prevent the passage
of air, even when we blow forcibly ; but
with the additional paste used to fasten
the paper on the wall, the papercd wall be-
comes impervious to air oOve1' the plas-
tered mouth of this pipe I have pasted
some thin wall paper; it is now dry, but
you see I cannot blow the least airthrough
Apapered wall is a. slrangly wall so
far as_ wall-respiration is concerned.
When a wall is caicimined, the whiting and
coloring material being laid on with a. so-
lution of glue, the wall becomes imper-
Here is a pipe, the mouth
of the bowl ﬁlled with mortar, and this
covered with calcimine , it has been thor-
oughly dried, but only a minute trace of
air can be forced through it. The same is
how readily air passesgtrue of adpainted wail. flare is another
thmu h laste 3,1 0 tin-on - - § i e ﬁllc with mortar; have very thor-

g p r’ S gh a Bond buck lgurghly whitewashed the exposed face of
lthc mortar, applying two coats of white-
lwash; yetyou see I can blow air through
lit nearly as easily as through rough plas-

The tidy housewife looks with contempt
upon whitewash, “because it gets dirty
so quick,” while she feels proud of her cal-
cimined wall, “because it keeps clean so
The one gets dirty because it
breathes, the other keeps clean because it
does not breathe. The dead baby’s ﬁngers,
when once washed, keep clean, but the
live baby's ﬁngers forever ﬁnd the dirt ! -

A painted wall is still more impermeable
by air. A stuccoed wall or "hardﬂnish
permits the passage of air very much the

Fairlield Grange— Lenawee Pomona.

Bro. Cobb .-— * * Our Grange is now
holding its meetings regularly twice each
month, with a large average attendance of
its members. You will see by the quarterly

‘ report that we have added ten new members

to our Grange, and we have a fair prospect
of adding more.

Thursday, May 12, I attended the second
of Lenawee County
Grange. No. 15. at the city of Adrian. On
account of the busy season of the year, the
attendance was not large, but a good and
profitable meeting for the Patrons of Hus-
bandry of Lenawec county was held. The
question of bulking our wool and shipping
it, under-tlie plan provided by the commit-
tee appointed by the State Grange, was dis-
cussed. Brother James Cook, of Adrian
Grange, was appointed receiver for Lenawee
county. The officers for the year were in-
stalled, Brother A. S. Bush. -of Madison
Grange, ofiiciatiiig as installing ofﬁcer, and
we pronounced the meeting a success.

l\rIAR'l'I-N ODELL.

Jasper, May 16th.

The Work in Colon Grange-—An Invitation.

This Grange was reorganized in February
of this year, and has been mainly occupied
in admitting new members. A good many
young people are coming in. It now looks
as thou h we were going to have one of the
largest ilranges in this part of the State.

What we lacked before was regular intel-
lectual work. Societies will not long hold
together if the members do not realize that
they are securing valuable results. I wish
that every Grange in the State which
has worked in the line of poems, es-
says, discussions, or any literary work,
would send me their programs. Now, breth-
ren and sisters, let this be your invitation,
Help us.

0. ’i‘o:iti.ii\‘soN. Lecturer.

Science. Literature, and Art.

New York is fast becoming the great centre
for much that is distinguished in the scien-
tific, iiterary,and artistic world. Edison. the
great inventor of the age, now lives in Fifth

. avenue, and soon our streets will be ablaze

with electric lights. Little did Franklin
dream of the vast resources of electricity
when he went ﬂying thathistoricai kite, and
of the millions there was in it for posterity.
Edison is rich, and still has innumerable gold
mines in his brain; but he is not the only in-
ventive genius of the age. Just now, the
talk of the town, in scientiﬁc and other cir-
cles, is of an electric hair brush, whose in-
ventor is said to have already reaped his
million. The lucky man this time isa Dr.
Scott, an English gentleman, we believe,
from London; and our fashionable swells
haveaserious grudge against him for cross-
ing the seas to rejuvenate the old beaux.
For not only is this marvellous brush war-
ranted to cure a headache in ﬁve minutes,
but it is also averred that it will make an
ancient maiden as youthful and bright as
Hebe, by restoring her faden tresses; and,
moreover that under its magical skill, even
an old bachelor's pate may become
A thing of beauty and a joy foreverl

So much for the new marvel in electricity;
and when will the age of wonders cease?

 
A HOUSE MUST BREATHE.

house must breathe, to be healthy,
just as truly as an animal; but a. wet wall,
a papered, a calcimined, or painted wall,
is a. strangled wall. If we could build our
houses of materials utterly impermeable
by air,—make them of boiler plate, riveted
steam tight,—we would speedily die of!
and give place to a race having more
.sense. The skin on every part of the
body must breathe, though we have a
special apparatus for respiration on the
large scale; just so ii. healthy house must
breathe through all its walls, while yet
provided with a special apparatus for ven-
tilation or breathing on the large scale.
Every garment we wear, except-those
made of rubber, gives ready passage to
air ; through the thickest overcoat I blow
the air to extinguish my candle ﬂame;
through this leather boot-leg I sway the
ﬂame, while through this thick buckskin I
puff out light instantly. We hear much
of the hygienic value of perforated buck-
skin : it would be equally sensible to per-
forate 8. wire sieve! Every garment must
be penetrated and washed by ail‘ 130
preserve health. The house is only
a huge overcoat!

Al the time these reports were muue,
Alabasliue was not in general use and the
board knew nothing of it, but it is now on
sale in nearly every city and village; and
was recently submitted to Prof. Kedzie,
President and chemist of the board, for
analysie and investigation.

As it is manufactured from stucco (ala-
baster rock,) one of the materials men-
tioned by the Professor that permits the
passage of air, possessing all those quali-
ties set forth in the above as being neces-
sary to constitute a wall ﬁnish conducive
to health. This valuable material comes
within the reach of all, being cheaper than
kalsomiue, as it covers double the amount
of surface with the same number of
pounds, is simple, easily applied, and is
also the only suitable material for the
frescoe painter’-8 use.

' Full particulars in regard to Alabastine,
are in the company's circular, containing
samples of the twelve beautiful tints, they
manufacture, ready for the brush by ad-
ding hot water.

Iam

seeing

of the 5

PROF. xanzrifs LETTER 1'0 mm
ALABASTINE company.

M. B. Church, Mauagei-for the Alabastine
Company :

DEAR SIB:-—At your request I have an.
alyzed specimens of Alabastine manufac-
tured by the Alabastine Company, of
Grand Rapids, and ﬁnd no traces of pols-
onous or imurwus materials. The materia1

was carefully tested for arsenic and co -
per, but none could be found. My stu y
as been “A.labastined," and I am ve
well pleased with the result. -. The Ala.-
bastine makes a very firm and durable
covering to the wall, and seems to be free
from any tendency to crack or scale. It
in also free from any disagreeable odor.
Yours truly,
R. C. Knnzm, Prof. Chem.
lsgbgricultural College, Lansing, Sept. 7,

  
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MY BOOKS.

BY JOHN G. RAKE.

Ah! well I love those books of mine,
That stand so triinly on their shelves,
With here and there a broken line-
(Fat “quartos" jostling modest “twelves"),——
A curious company. I own;
The poorest ranking with their betters :
In briet'—-a thing almost unknown-
A Pure Democracy—of Letters.

A motley gathering are they ;

Some fairly worth their weight in gold;
Some just too good to throw away;

Some scarcely worth the place they hold.
Yet, well I love them one and all,

These friends so meek and unobtrusive,
Who never fail to come at call,

Nor (if I scold them) turn abusive I

If I have favorites here and there,
And, like a monarch, pick and choose,
1 never meet an angry stare
That this I take and that refuse :
No discords rise, my soul to vex
Among these peaceful book relations,
Nor envious strife of age or sex
To mar my quiet lucubrations.

And they have still another merit,
Which otherwhere one vainly seeks,
Whate’er may be an author's spirit,
He never uninvited speaks ;
And should he prove a tool or clown, _
Unworth the precious time you’re spending,
How quickly you can " put him down,"
Or "shut him up,” without offending 3

l-1ere—plensiiig sight—the touchy brood
Of critics from dissension cease;
And—sl:ranger still I-—no more at feud,
Polemics smile and keep the peace.
See I side by side, all free from strife
(Save what the heavy page may smother),
The gentle "Christians” who in life,
For conscience sake, had burned each other.

I call them friends, these quiet books,
And well the title they may claim,
Who always give me cheerful looks
(What living friend has done the same ? )
And, for companionship, how few,
As these, my cronies ever-present,
Of all the frieiiils I ever knew
Have been so useful and so pleasant 1"

‘Eddies’ 3i}i11ztql11[t11t.

Woman’s Rights.

It may appear surpassingly strange to
some of my sisters that I, being identiﬁed
with and belonging to the weaker sex,
should volunteer to stand up in defense of
men and attempt to palliate their heinous
and almost unpardonable sin which they so
persistently, purposely practice upon the
fairer sex. W'ell, my consolation, if any
I may have, must come from an approving
conscience, and the commendations of those
noble beings we call men, who protect and
provide for us. They may not, and doubt-
less have not felt like resenting the attack
made upon them in the form of sharp re-
buke for their negligence, indifference, in
short. wrongs of almost every character,
for which they justly merit the disapproval
and disgust so far as their action is implica-
ted, that is developed in the disposition ex-
hibited by the woman who is entitled by
the relations she sustains to society, by the
sphere she legitimately occupies in the uni-
verse, to all and as much consideration and
respect as the man.

\Vell, now, sisters, that we are and stand
as high in the scale of existence as it regards
those noble attributes that distinguish us
from other senlient beings is my doctrine.
It may be and perhaps is a fact that in
other portions of the world women are not
so regarded, but in our fair laud she is eleva-
ted to her proper position; she moves and
exerts her powers and inﬂuence in her own,
and I believe, Heaven-designed, legitimate
sphere. Here, I may be answered by some
of my grumbling sisters, that is not the
foundation particularly upon which we
predicate our complaint. Well, what is it?
Most assuredly we have not attained this
position by military power in the ﬁeld: we
are not skilled in those tactics, neither do
we want to be by the force of arms. \V'e are
the weaker party. Nay we have not attained
to this position by wise counsels, in the
cabinet, by skill and valor, by wise and
wholesome laws, but by the just apprecia-
tion of our zeal and worth. by a wise regard
or respect for the power and inﬂuence
which woman can wield when untrammel-
ed by that pagan notion of woman’s inferi-
ority, circumscribed capacity to aid and to
be a powerful auxiliary and efﬁcient co-
worker with man in carrying forward the
ameliorating and beneﬁcent enterprises of
our world.

I am glad to say that our fathers, brothers,
husbands, and sons have united in striking
the manacles from our hands and in placing
us upon equal footing with them, not only
in our efforts as co-workers, but in all the
advantages, with all the facilities for devel-
oping the mind, so that in many instances
the daughters are more favored than the
sons. I can see no ground of complaint in
these respects. Had I time I might dwell
upon the prevailing customs of our coun-
try showing thedeference and preferment
in numberless ways; the courtesy,kindness,
reserved deportment in the presence of la-
dies, on the streets of the city, commercial
rooms,railway coaches,omnibuses, churches,
social gatherings, by our ﬁresides. In all our
intercourse with men we are in honor pre-
ferred. I say, in our social intercourse, in

all our relations in life, moral, social, and
domestic, we are accorded by our lords and
kings the highest and softest seats.

But, so far I may have considered or
dwelt upon a theme foreign to the real com-
plaint, perhaps one ground of complaint
originated in the fact that we were. women

requisition
which we can scarcely conceive until bro’t
face to face with them.
nary course of nature we suffer more pain,

ces.
Congress, be president, governors, judges,
lawyers,
want to do all that men do, and have all
the rights that they have.
but that they are willing to gratify us, will-
ing we should have or occupy all those po-
sitions we aspire to, but for one I am not
willing to come down from the high position

gle and strife.
upon the sacred elevation which the laws
and customs of our country have allotted us
and there give counsel and comfort in the
direction that honesty and purity would
dictate, to struggling humanity in political
contests, praying for the right as we would
when our fathers, brothers, husbands and
sons are called to defend our country's ﬂag.

in numberless directions of

If in the ordi-

if the curse fell heaviest upon us it, was not
man’s doing; we first plucked the forbidden
fruit and ate them, and gave to him. Never-
theless unto the man it was said, “In the

sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat thy bread,”

but we see in this transaction fairly demon-

strated the fact of woman’s unfettered voli-
tion.

Ihave often thought that if father
Adam had held a little tighter rein over
mother Eve it might have saved us much
trouble. But I see that the law of God and

example of a kind husband dial not prevent

the woman from partaking the forbidden
fruit, nor will not deter us from grumbling
now. In the phraseology of the Scriptures,
woman was made an hi-lpmeet for man,
while he should bear the heavier responsi-
bilities. We in our sphere and to the ex-
tent of our ability should and ought to try
to answer the end of our creation.

Little, so little to do with, and no pros-
pect of anything more, I get completely
discouraged. Now, are we sure that we are
not as much in fault as our husbands ‘B Is
it because he is lazy, or a poor ﬁnancier, or
is it because we are a little lazy, somewhat
wasteful, and quite extravagant? Have we
impartally investigated the cause‘? A little
self-examination seldom is amiss in my ex-
perience. 'Well, I might, in giving my views,
speak truthfully of some, while I might err
in others. ButI think with a candid ret-
rospect I could point out as many delin-
quences on my side of the house as on the
other side. I have known instances, I ac-
knowledge, and am free to do so, for of
course I am not so partial to the men that I
cannot see their faults, and here an apolo-
gy might be due for a volunteered service.

But an attempt to meet the charges brought
against men in general by one of the accus-
ing party, or if not of the party of the sex,
need not be regarded an unsolvable mystery,

for we ﬁnd men ready to volunteer‘ their

services in backing up those charges. en-
couraging complaints, in short aiding in
creating discontent, disaﬂection to a greater
or less extent, disturbing the tranquility of
those little social ﬁrms we call families. I
do not say that complaints may not be just-
ly made by both parties, but I do say, if
made, they should have a good foundation.

1 think it would be well to always keep

before the mind the seutiment,‘Consider the

v

ocam that is in thine own eye’ to get it out,

that we may see clearly to extract the mote
from our brother’s eve.
instances where the women have been ill-
used, ill-treated, neglected, and in short
abused by a thoughtless, unfeeling, callous-
liearted lazy “ lubber” of a husband. Then
again, I have known instances where the
men have been abused by the whims, ca-
prices, extravagance, and wastefulness of
wives; others by contentious, fault-ﬁnding,
lazy, and sluttish women.

I see there may be

But you know, sisters,we are as a. fraternity

reputed “gossips,” so it might become me to
enter a little into self examination, hence I
close with a brief history of my experience.
I would not have the effrontery in your
presence, nor in the hearing of these gentle-
men, to intimate that I had the best husband
that ever lived. But when I take a view of
the past, when I reﬁect upon our relative
positions in the path in life as we have to-
gather trod it, the cares and toils, the joys
and sorrows, prosperity and adversity thro’

which he has manfully borne his part-

that of one placed under the greater ob-
ligation.
cflbrts to providefor my wants.
faction so visibly demonstrated when that
was accomplished, his readiness to gratify
my wishes, his patient watching over me
when sick, restrains me from those charges
I have often heard brought against those
who were like the one proverbial for his
patience. .

I am the debtor to his untiring
The satis-

I amjust reminded that after all I may

not have touched the right chord. The com-
plaint may be that, though our husbands are
willing that we should suffer, yet they are
not willing that we should have the right of
suffrage.

VVe want to vote. We want to hold offi-
\Ve want to help make laws, go to

sheriffs, constables, in short we

I don’t know
I now occupy to the arena of political wran-

I prefer to retain my footing

Mus. L. P. WALDO.
Grand Ledge, April 30, 1881.

and not men. We look with s. covetous 5
eye upon their lordly, kingly, independent 1
condition, and envy them. VVe forget that 
even with those powers and capacities with i Grange, March 5th, and presented for publi-
which Heaven has endowed them there is a  Cation by request of the Grange]

proportionate responsibility, and the rela- 
tions they sustain lay them under obliga-
tions that brings all their energies into

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The Grange.

[Read at an open meeting of Litchfield

Worthy Master, Patrons and Fricnrls.-—
Were it not a principle of our Grange that

ievery laborer therein perform the task ap-

pointed him, I should have excused myself
from the duty imposed upon me at our last
meeting. W'itli the wants of a family of
seven to be met each day, it will readily be
conceded that time for preparing an essay
must be exceedingiy limited, and it is only
the knowledge that I shall receive your
kindest criticism that has prcniptul me to
do what I could.

The Grange:—~l’crbaps by some this may
be considered a trite subject; but to us who
are in the habit of meeting here on every
Saturday evening it is a very dear one, and
perhaps may not be wholly uninter-
esting to our friends without. the gate.
That the principles held by our Older, and

which so many have souglit to ilirow upon

it, even those whose interests li:-ivc been

greatly promoted by its prosperity, and also
0

for whose special beneﬁt it was inauginated.

Undoubtedly several causes have L'JlJ[lli)u
ted to this misconception of the purposes of
our Order. First, the suspicion to overcome
with which every new departure from the
beaten track is looked upon. But. this
would have been an easy task had not a
class of men, whose immense fortunes have
been builtupou the ignorance and apathy
of the people, forscen in the movement the
great educating influence which it would
exert, and the power it would wield through
united action, and as injustice and wrong
must yield before an enlightened people, we
could but expect that this class would use
every means in their power to bring the
Orderintodisrepute. To the inﬂuence of
this class may be largely attributed the ill-
feeling which has been exhibited towards
the Order by many of the representatives of
other occupations. Nor would it have been
strange in the earlier days of our Order
before our Declaration of Purposes was pub-
lished, if misconceptions of the objects of
our Order by members of our own fraterni-
ty had given strength to these misrepresen-
tations. The alarm which has been created
in mind of the merchant, the mechanic
and manufacturer, has undoubtedly had
the greatest influence of anything in creat-
ing ill-feeling. The artisan was told that if
the Grange was a success the farmers would
combine to extort the most exorbitant
prices for their products, consequently the
price of living would be greatly enhanced.
And when the whole country was suffering
from the depression consequent upon the
terrible war through which we had just
passed, the panic-stricken people were told
that the hard times was the work of the
Grange-rs, and many were ignorant enough
to believe it.

The merchant’s fears have been aroused
not only by the fact that the people were
becoming inquisitive to know what were the
proﬁts made on the various articles which

‘they purchase, but also by the fact that the

knowledge thus gained had convinced
many that they were paying much greater
proﬁts on many articles than was just;
hence it was easy to prejudice this class with
the idea that the Grange would ruin their
business by buying their merchandise at
ﬁrst hands. That all had not been so easily
inﬂuenced we were convinced a few days
since by reading an account of the valuable
presents made to the Grand Rapids Grange
by the leading merchantile houses of that
city. That they were not losers by their
friendliness I think that every one will pre-
sume. Undoubtedly, many of the purchas-
es made by our Granges have been the re-
sult of the ill feeling manifested towards
them by their home merchants. That our
Order is not antagonistic to any legitimate
business we think is susceptable of conclu-
sive proof.

Let us consider from whence comes near-
ly all our wealth. Does it not lie hidden in
the soil until the farmer’s plow brings it
forth in ripened grain, and fruit and veget-
ables‘? Have our merchants, mechanics
and manufacturers ever considered how
intimately their own success depends upon
the prosperity of the farmer? If not, let
them imagine for a moment the consequen-
ces to each of their own occupations which
would follow a universal failure of the
farmer's proﬁts. The carpenteﬂs hammer
and the mason’s trowel would rust unused,
although their families might be suffering
from hunger. The factory would be closed
from want of material to be wrought and
the purchaser for the manufactured article,
while the merchant’s costly fabric would
become moth-eaten upon his shelves be-
cause none would possess the means to pur-
chase.

In proportion then, to the farmer's pros-
perity are the proﬁts of all these other
occupations. When the farmer has a full
pocket does he not generously call in the
carpenter and the mason to share it with
him, and when his house is built does
not the furniture dealer soon beguile him
into buying new chairs and tables,.and
does not the merchant soon sell him new

can penance  visiron.

carpets for his floors, and perchance a silk
gown for his wife?

Have our friends, ever considered the
immense loss to the farmer, and con-
sequently to themselves, by the exor-
bitant prices extorted by the railroads for
transporting farm products to a market‘?
Collossal fortunes, it enables them to build
for themselves, but does might of their
wealth ever go into your coffers, or in any
waylielp to build up our inland towns?
Should our business men make an estimate
of the loss they sustain from the robbery
of their patrons by the railroad companies,
instead of lamenting over the few purchases
which a few of the Granges have felt the
necessity of making for themselves, they
could not fail to see that they are fighting
their own friends and robbing their own
pockets.

That our Order ever designed to disturb
the rclatir:ns between merchant, manufac-
turer and farmer we cannot for a moment
2-uppose. livery farmer knows that he must

the objects sought to be attained by it are 3 d"V‘—"e himself [0 hisowu ﬁeld °f ]"*b‘"'r but

i I , . _ , —. ._
not well understood by a large iiiajuruy ofj d.U,DOt.r{_)r‘L moment fmppoge that W“ LO“
the pwple is evident from the "Mmluy : sicer his duty all penormed, although he
, .

may have succeeded in coaxing from the
soil its greatest yield of wealth. It is no less
liisdiiiy to dispose of his products in the

. _ , _ 3 ‘en market and la out his sur"lus in the
by the indiﬂerencc of so many of the clas.-’ , H ' ‘Y S U

best manner possible. And after all this
has been done, it is a principle of our Order
most szrongly inculcated that he prepare
liiinsclfas every other citizen should do to
meet the requirements of his country. The
power which he has so largely delegated to
another class. which empowers the few to
legislate for the many, has not been proiluc
tive of the greatest good to the greatest num-
ber. The farmer should have learned be-
fore this that if he would eat his own din-
ner he must guard it himself while be per-
forms his labor, than trust it to the care of
another hungrier than himself, although
the greatest anxiety be felt to relieve him
self of that responsibility.

Brother farmer, outside the gate, why
have you failed to identify yourself with the
Grange ‘.’ Undoubtedly some have been de-
terred by the fear of ridicule from a few
who have mistakably supposed that their
own interests were assailed, and who have
not failed to express their disapproval
whenever an opportunity offers. Can any
of these suppose that such a spirit of servili-
ty has won for them the respect of those for
whose good opinion they have barlered
their independence ‘.‘

Others undoubtedly consider the Order
too democratic in its tendencies, and could
not come down from their lofty heights to a
footing with their brother farmers. Our Or-
der has no need for these classes. They are
the clogs to all improvements and progress
wherever they are, and our Order must
move on. Still if they come to us we can
pledge their improvement. But to the large
class who have failed to give it the thought
which their interests demand, we would
say : Investigate the subject, learn what has
already been accomplished by united effort,
and then calculate how much greater would
be the results had you all put your
shoulders to the wheel and resolved to be no
longer an incumbrance upon your class, but
go to the front of the con ﬂict and main-
tain there your post until the last wrong is
righted and you are acknowledged to be a
power in the land. Our Order needs you,
but greater is your need of the advantages
which our organization offers you.

And now, lest I have already wearied you
with my prosiness I leave to the pen of an
abler brother or sister the pleasaiit task of
describing to you the advantages we reap
from our organization.

Mus. L. B. AG-ARI).

Influence of the Grange.

I bring the first-fruits of my toil and care
to the order of Patrons, hoping to share in
the blessings of friendship. I dare not
promise you will ﬁnd much improvement
upon former oﬂE'crings, nor that We have
clambered up the steepest heights of the
mountain of knowledge; but we trust that
in the many changing scenes of the past our
feet have been guided in the straight and
pleasant path and cast some kindly inﬂuence
in the good cause for which we are so nobly
toiling. And may the seed of virtue which
has been sown in the minds of our brothers
and sisters root deep in the soil of ﬁdelity,
and send forth the evergreen shoots of love,
that We may gather therefrom the golden
fruits of faith, hope and charity; that its
lovely branches may be rocked to and fro in
the spicy breath of friendship, and the
sweet fragrance of the lovely unfolding
ﬂower may sweeten the genial air of friend-
ship in the Grange.

Our inﬂuence in the Grange is the foun-
dation upon which it stands, and if we
expect to realize the full beneﬁt of our mem-
bership we must be faithful, earnest, diligent
workers. We lay all sorts of plans for enjoy-
ing life and making others happy at some
future time and neglect the present oppor-
tunity for doing both. The inﬂuence of the
Grange upon our children and friends may
be good in our own lives, and long after we
are dead may cause our names to be held in
grateful remembrance. How often when
we select our friends do-we pass by the plain
and humble to some brilliant and admired
one who ‘stands in the higher place; Per-
haps had we chosen. the otherwe should

JUNE], 1881.

have found beneath that rough exterior 3
mine of friendship rich and inexhaustable.
There are treasures all around us, would we
but search them out.

There is no time for vain regrets. If we
would have life full of blessings we must
win and wear the magicjewel of gentleness,
goodness, truth and the Grange.

There is no perfume on earth fraught with
such fragrance as the flowers of good works
and that pity which relicws the distress of
our brothers and sisters. The ﬂower of
charity should bloom in every heart to tone
down and soften the rugged and embittered
feelings that will arise there and ﬁnd an
outlet through our mouths. Let us practice
that charity which thinketh no evil. The
interval seems so brief since we visloned
forth a thousand schemes for the coming
year, which mock us in the memory of their
unfulﬁlment.

The grim monster Death has broken our
circle and taken one who met with us only
a few short months ago. Life freely offered
to his declining years the precious gifts of
her storehouse, but amid the scenes of love-
liness lie bade us a long and sad farewell,
only to greet us at the great anniversary.

VVliile in memory we visit the past, hope
points us to something more enduring.

To the brothers and sisters of the Grange
I extend my sincere and heartfelt thanks
for your kindly tokens of love and fiiend-
ship in the sad hour of bereavement.

Mus. I‘IA‘.\‘.\'All \VAi.woi-irii.

Vermontville, Mich.

Flowers.

Bro. Cobb .-——I have looked long and anx-
iously to ﬁnd something from the ladies in
the \'IsiTo1t on the subject of “ flowers." I
once saw a notice in the VISITOR that the
question, “ Does it pay to cultivate flowers 1"’
would be discussed in the Ionia County
Grange, but have seen no notice of their
decision in the Visi'roi:. I have felt a great
interest to know in what way it is expected
to have the cultivation of ﬂowers pay, in
dollars and cents or by the pleasure we have
in the cultivation of them.

VVe know tastes differ widely, and the
sense of beauty varies strangely, so that
which has charms for one mind has no at-
traction for another. But there are few
minds without the capacity of feeling to a
greater or less degree the emotions which
the beautiful is ﬁtted to excite or that fails
to perceive in some object those tokens
which awaken and gratify the sense of
beauty within them. When Jesus said :
“ Consider the lilies of the ﬁeld,” He evi-
dently believed and taught that there was
something in them very beautiful that was
worthy of study and calculated to impart
not only true pleasure but important moral
lessons. Never did the study of ﬂowers re-
ceive higher commendation than in these
wise and poetical words of our great Teach-
er. He made the flowers, and the care and
skill which He has displayed in their struc-
ture and expended upon their culture, to
make them so lovely to the eye and charm-
ing to the mind, furnish the best of reasons
Why we should study the beauties, utilities,
and teachings of these bright and beautiful
ﬂowers.

Now, dear sisters of the VI:>'l’l‘0R, are you
not all glad that another season of buds and
ﬂowers is so near once more, when the
earth shall be clothed anew in vernal green,
and the lovely ﬂowers shall again make
brilliant our summer gardens. I would like
to tell my sisters how nicely I kept a number
of varieties of pansies, snapdragons, roses,
and several other plants in a cold frame
t.hrough the winter, and how they have
blossomed. For some time since my pan-
sies have blossomed so nicely, and it seems
as if the more I pick off‘ the more there ai'e
to pick. The plants in my little plant room
have done nicely this winter, and have
blossomed beautifully, especially my Prim-
roses, and the little exercise needed to take
care of ﬂowers is a relief to mental pursuits
and gives variety to domestic duties, while
the daily growth of each plant and ﬂower is
a great delight through the long winter
months.

Now I think we all need ﬂowers, as we all
need recreation; they rest us, beautify our
homes, and gladden our hearts. \Ve could
hardly get a taste of them in our short sum-
mer, if we did not have a portion of them
expressly for winter.

May we not hear from some of our sisters
on the subject of ﬂowers‘? Ijust feel like
giving our State Lecturer a good scolding
for never writing anything on the subject of
ﬂowers, when he has so much knowledge
and experience with house plants, and it

don’t seem to be a bit of trouble to him to

write on any subject he wishes to. We

shall certainly expect to hear from him on

this subject at some future day. c_ L, s_
White Pigeon, April. 1881.

$30118, bear in mind that for robbing
the nest, or killing at any time any robin,
nighthawk, whippoorwill, ﬁnch, thrush,
lark, sparrow, cherry bird, swallow, yellow
bird, blue bird, brown thresher, wren, mar-
tin, oriole, Woodpecker, bobolink. or any
other such songster, you are liable to a ﬁne
of five dollars.

 
IN Oregon no man is allowed to take a
drink at a public bar without taking out a
$5 license, and the newspapers publish in.
teresting lists from time to time of the men
who have obtained licenses. It is a penal
offence for a saloon keeper to sell to a man
unprovided with a license.


4--—

JUNl<1 i, 1881. 1 u 1‘ E

  
E,,_;;G§~§;._A_:N&E,: visit-on. 7

 
1- I , orado and garnets from Connecticut. I other trades. The cone uence is that the  '
lg. . ’ woulé  to correspoﬁd  usweet public are robbed, and t at a comparative A.    -
‘i  $ 2 a  Brier” upon the subjects she speaks of, and few of the members of the legal profession __
f , . . . MANUFACTURER,
, some others. If she agrees, will she please obtain for themselves the chief portion of -
__....._.:__.”..‘__._».N_,_,_g , :._:.___“__,,__,__: send her address to me? I will stop here, the spoil, while the great bulk of them WHOLESALE an RETAIL Dnu-En IN   P
or I will crowd my “cousins.” Struggle On 35 b9Sl? they C_31'l- 9111' legal ex‘ 1
ll l-555°” ml‘ ””““' Your niece. Changes 3'9 ﬁlled Wllll dlsoosslons 011 law‘    &C., Paris Green and London Purple.
:_D 'f voill st could be NETTIE GIFFORD. lversl Closts. Thetcomlfutlﬁlty are boﬂrlg to I 92 MT 1- e Street. —— l
‘ ear mammogl ., ll 1 _ 21, lave ciea ier us ice i e can.—— an °“ ° - » -
A tiny little gal hke me, Roya tons Vt 1 March Law Jourlzaﬁl ’ y 3/ 7 The use of Ready Mixed _Paiiits is now almost
And I you mamma, you wouyd see ____ GRALD RAPIDS, MICH. universal. The public, during the last éew yteilars,
How nice pd beta you. “““ I tak I . 8 ti to u fa Mable com have learned from practical tests’ that a unit 01‘-
Iyd always let you have your way ; The Baby Preacher. sideraﬁilli !:?l8'l<:§IIlipl;Rt=It1CE!:1ils§‘0°f!‘H;mess Work oughly ground ang npxed by (i:.i.i<£li1xi:s!'ey',ll1noI:1Pl’{:’;
Pd 119“? fmwll all Y0“ and “Y5 "" —HAND MADE—all of my own manufacture. and pm“? colors’ ma y or lmme M e ‘P, and
‘ YOU We l>6l1l1Vl118_lll l0 ‘lay;    It  ' The 9Xpl'955l0l3 la llle elghth Pslillllr “Out also to return thanks for the liberal patronage I have °P°llll18 to‘ 3» t_P;'_‘°kt'.‘ge'th1s "Il,°':°t€°°?:;11"§‘_’hand
Such conduct will not do.’ of the mouth of babes and sucl-ilings hast received from the different Granges throughout Micli- $v:;:ﬁt§11;as:ti1;e:c 531% c0l;:rc(iu§ysun_l,0,.iC,, ‘l
l ' fii‘ 77:" ' '7 7? ’','fL;L::L_‘,,:;fLL:Zf';' Lu", 1- , _, ,;’;._Z _ I ' V . 7‘ " ' 1 R , ' - I h  d '  f t '   ' h 1 ‘ “'
"rd always gm 3'0“ lenymke (‘ N - i l1lll)sl]iu(:3Ii((l:lrllt.e-(1 mengtm 1% 11 [mm ed by lliiliiest sogds E¢))I1‘1lhelei1ustuilieo::;? ems mm THE PATROVS‘ PAINT wonxs
For breakfast, and I'd never shake I I ,AMBRIA, iId-Y I8. 881.  Mme ﬂ-‘yewear OM bo Overheard a Farm “mess, White Trimmed Breeching -
My head and say, “_You must not take )1 ort/lg iSecretary.-——.l3etter late than never A ‘k - Vb . _ , Y th gm‘. Round L,-Des, S,,,,p,_ Rum straps, and MANUFACTURE
So verylargea.sl1Ce.' with a report; so I Wlll say that wheat will ‘_V°l mall “ 0 W35 WP’?-lllllg “ 0 S! 1:13’; spread rings’ compmm . _ _ . ' _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . . _ U329 00 N , DY M- “D PAINTS
I’d never say: ‘ My deal‘, I trust not be more than half a crop in this section. loom» dloll _ll3e exlglalllalyloll lly gosdv The same without Breechingy , _ , _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ , _ __ 35 00 INGBRDOLL S BEA 1X-I‘ l
}:'op will not make m|es,1y yophmust t Clover of last year's seeding is looking we1i_ overlsiilme mis]hap.d "That sftltif tirslt swear .. .. Wm, ﬂat Line,’     34 00 and sell them Exci.usivEi.i- to
3 up Your out 11183 ;_ 01'. ‘ ecrus Vv 1 . h d V ,. dr . the ”,,S__ ,, _ wort ever near in my a ers iouse H 1. .. £5 .. ‘tb,,,t } eecim, ___ 3; 00
You'll find is very nice.‘ Plgniﬁlg isamoilgj dogev ea T qpr 1g was the grave rebuke of the little fellow. ll; Double Light Buggy H,,,.:e1Ss,)whi,: t,.,m,,",’,ed, )  Of 
ll v . . VVife and myself vi"ited Lltcllﬁelll Gruzwe ' 30 l‘’‘l‘''ll9‘l the, r"ugh man that he went t.0 from"   :" ‘ "    to €30 00 Th I‘. ' ts ere among the very first of their
11.‘?g’o“g’0l,’v‘$t?;:,':,ll;V€;:,‘:r§'0:i,af,,;d any 1 135; Samrday eve,,jD;._ and Saw the c0,,,~e",_ the iiiothcr of the boy and confessed his The same, hickle Tl'lU1n:l9(l.ll‘0lll.......®vJO'tO :20 00 kind epsﬁt £3“ tr; ,,,.,,,,,e,, and they hape beep sold
‘ What would my darling like‘! You may ring of the fourth degree upon ﬁve 14-year f3lll_l- ll’-lll_le_ 9ll.’~’.3z‘="3ll 0_ll llle Joltl ll? 119"” S‘"§>'l_li“;n}?n“e3dgy H‘"“”* Wm‘ “’“’“l hues’ “me ,3 00 throughout the United States upon their merits for
Have anything you see.’ old May I);iy" young ladies. We found ii. ; az‘§,?;lll l3l'5f“-l llll? "Ul§:"dl‘ll.V 0F_lll‘(illi\U1l.‘'_- : Same with éa‘t‘ 1.3 00 l11ol1l’)‘9“l”3-
1'“ ”*“"’”“Y'- ‘MY Pet’ -"°“ l‘“°“' “"9 Working (i'u'o"s’o of 5<"I1ol"‘lm'=o1l1’~’T-?- . “” b°-l' “"’“. “ “M lad’. WM‘ 5 the *.‘““e i Nickle Trimmed ..... ..zsl-5 S16 sis 320 and 2.5 on Our Prices for issi are more llberal than
'Tis bad for health and teeth, and so Had a good feast and good S(,cia_1 “me as lllllllel1Ce()‘JeI‘l.ll:! mates. They lll](l9l‘.5".3.lld 5 ’ ’ ’ ’ Se d 1 B k in) ‘am He Color
Icannot let you have it. No; k . P t .1 . . 1 t 1 . tliatllis part in ihe game is ended as soon as . ALL ORDERS RECEIVED UNDER SEAL or "‘°"° ‘ " "T °‘‘' ‘’° *“ r l
. , you now vie ii rolls 4 ways ( 0 lave w iui _ - , , . ,,
it would be wrong in me. We meet 3 bad words “.6 ,1,t,0duce,3_ phe knowledge I THE GRANGE cards and Brusi Patterns.
“And 9V9l'Y day l'll let you “'9” N,0w I begin to behave that Bro’ ,‘Vlv]i,E‘- l l,hm    1 will be shipped at once, and may he returned at my “Every Man his OWD Painter” Mailed Free-
Your nicest dress, and never care ney S talk to us, or the three month 3 \ l_.s- Y‘ ‘l ‘ _.Y]i ‘ lit ,1‘? ‘ ‘ L _A 1  . L b , expense if not entirely satisfactory. Address’
If it should getagreat big lieu-X‘; ITORS," 01‘ llollla ha-"9 dolle Us ls'00'~l lll P-mteplb’ am  C 1.1 B -rid U14 -.e.s”.e 0 (3 . Address all orders to
I’d only say to you: Cainbria, as this spring we have given one like his_ fathei, have gi\ on this salutatoiy , Yours vet . ms ectfu“  M_ 
4 My precious treasure, never mind, Candidate the four degrees’ and last evening bias to his early lile. 3’ P Y’ V ‘ , ‘ PROPRIETOR‘
For little clothes will tcar,1 ﬁnd._ . conferred the ,,,.S, degme 0,, ﬁve ,,,,,,e_ v A. VAN DI«.1\ BI<.RG, _
NOW; mammlv Wmlld“ t‘ that be kmd 7 expected Seven but sickness prevented two l. "'7 iv’ " ‘WA "_‘_‘W —“~— , 92 Moxnoz STREET, GRAND RA1>ms. 162 Smith 51-a, ' ' New ‘ ‘Wk (“ly-
That'sjustWl1&tISh011ltl do- from ,,0,,.,,,,, ' ,,.,a,e,m,,,y Yours 1 ms REAPER, DEATH, _ .. ........._._.-.-.--,._....-.-.- 6mo
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1 “I'd never say: \Vell, just 21. few! ‘ _R. E. PEER)’,  _ V _ _ _ 5  _ V ‘;  &  ‘ ‘ , T
rd ,e, you stop you, ,,,,,,,0,,,' too, gedy Cambm Grange, 3,, 7, , LRADDOCh.—Di-ed April 24, lssl_.l3roi1ier Join. I r A  It    UAL
1'd say: ' They are too hard for you, _____, CKADDOCK. aged nearly 68 years, ii incinber of Leslie 0
P001‘ Clllldr Hi undgrstiitnd.’ D ‘I 1 1551 Grange, N0. 189. Deceased was the father of Miss . Q ’ OF
I'd put the l)O0"S8Jl sia eaway; AVISBURG, i ay 3 .3’ . , -, K , .~ - , _ W
You ahouldu’t do mung but play. In behalf of Davisnurg Gmnge, ’I would ““““.“° 9"““}°°,;’.“".° ““f,“ "1 l“,".‘.‘“’ .‘“‘““ 117 l-‘edcriil 51.,  PAR LIAMENTARY
And have =1 Party 9V=‘1‘.V d3Y- , say that we have a. comfortable and pleasant vWl‘Em‘A-S’ ?. “E7 .l"efL.Se the (‘WW M‘me§.°f the L A“;
’ Ah-h-h. would!“ that be 8“*“‘l- hall in Dav’s block. We hold our regular .,‘,“,3‘f,‘;‘j,’f;f',,‘,j‘,£f,:,,“,§:f,,{.‘§‘,§‘f,‘jﬁf§; .‘°,,‘,f,‘,“°"“ "°’“ "3 Consignments solicited and Cash Advances Made 1 . ,b t, , d. ,3 m . f ch
~ '. -_ , , , _ , . , ‘, '- , - _ __ s i‘ecogni7.c¢ y is en mg par iamen rians o e
“ But iiiamma dear, you cannot grow llleelilllgs 3¢ml mollllll) Y “lld gen‘ l'a_ll3, lld‘ 9 VV iii-:1il»;As, Uur brother, by his laithiul attendance ’“' ” land as the most com 1ege_ concise and 5 gtemaﬁo
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Into a little girl, you know; 3' U 3' en “"09" _ e ave 4 e 3’ lnluate ill all Fl” Uollllclls 0‘ llle U1"<l‘_3F “ml by U19 W156 and work on the modern uructice. Ever citizen of this
6I'l'.l]8rl1 OTSB an OW OW 8I'S l V
Ami 1 can’: be your mumma; so several young ladies and gentlemen who clieei-iul penormaiice oi all his duties as a. Patron o_t ‘ ' republic should have ,,_ copy_
The only thing to do would be an ornament to any Grange. _VVe Husuuiidry, has ol18llou'e’c}l 0u1‘_ Confluence; by his This powder has been in use for many ye,,,,.s_ It It has received strong testimoni-ils from Samuel
Is just for you to try and 399 have an excellent choir, under the 1eauer- muuly ulu‘1Elm1o=?3 owl mloliflty of oh«'u'&ol}‘1‘ has - . ,, 3. Va 1,, an E.Adams, Past Master of the National Gran e; Sen-
. , 1514.1‘ ely used by the farmers of Penn )1 ti , d 8
HOW VET)“ "W ‘"0? ‘“’°“l‘l be ship of Bro. Porter VVright. Quite a num- "°mm“““.e‘l W‘ ’e5l’e°‘.“”d “°“"““5 “"‘l W “ls 5l"' the ﬁagrong of that state have bought over 100,000 ator Ferry, ex-Vice-President of the U. S., and from
Fm; you to do all tmsljoftmgu ., her of our members belong to Oakland C0.  _:_i:ta,'1:;;l?r1: an the Walks 0‘ me has pounds through their purchasing agents. Its compo- the Chief 0xeCut_i‘—'6 pﬂicer of the fpllowing and other
how’ mamma’ mm n y ‘ .  1 Pomona (ilrallge, and we hope this fall to n J, 0 . sition is no secret. The receipt is on every box and llﬁlemﬂl 0l'g11l1l1’-1?-H0115, VIZ? l\Dl_gl1l3 0_l H0901’-
-—bt. A l,e}l(lill3- . . . . . Resolved, ’1li.i.t in the death of our beloved brother - » Km ms and Lamas gf H K“, ht 1 P thxgg
have one of lts very interesting meetings in - -. . 5-pound package. It is made b Dr. L. Oberholtzers 8 01101‘: 8 3 0 Y r
. 11,. 1] 1.‘ J BIG «L W S .- - the order has lost one Qt hsimost worthy and ex.em' Sons (lb Co., Phoenixville, Pa. lt keeps stock healthy Royal Afcaﬂumu F0l‘8-‘llefﬁi GT-‘Ml Army 0‘ the R9-
‘ .__..-/e oul .1 . .. . la 0 , et )1. pliiry members, the coniniunity :1, worthyand upright and in good-condition It helps to d1gesta_ndasSim,_ public, Knights Templar, A. O. W., R. T. of 'I‘.,
-* This 99 arimem —~~ —~ ~ *~ -~~~—-~—-——i  cmzen. the chureh 01 his choice a consistent mem- me, Wm do ,,,,,,e ,,o,k with 16,, 1.0. G. ’[‘.,A. J.(). K. s. 11,1. 0. B. 13., etc.
P _ d, , _ _ late the food. H , , _ , , _ , ,
__._ For Favors ReceiVed_ be‘: all "5 "lrllllll Y -1 F158 and P1‘0V1d911F l1l15l)al1‘l-_ V food While ,,3i,,g_it_ COWS will give more mug and Circular of Testimonials sent on application. Prices
It seems that for Whom this corner of our __  hgji  ,‘,':‘;fl,::tt‘(’,,;é;‘:i§‘“;fl:“‘:ef1‘:,’f;g{ be in better condition. It keeps poultry healthy, and (bytmiulli iJtI1'epe:<l).kcl0;ll1. 50 cents ; plum leather, 75
paper was set apart do not as a class take B7-O_ (7055 _._A]iu1etimeag0Bay Grange’ S ,m wanes’ mm humb, ‘invoke in tfleir behalf the increases the production of eg;,rs._ It is also of great ceii sd, ea ierﬂuc s, . _ _ t
, . . , __ , _ _, . _ , _ ) l _ Y _ , . 01 m _ It ,5 sold at the 10we5t Ad ress, stating where you saw this advertisemeu ,
f E . 1-, 1 t, The . i . i . value to them wheiim t ,2
hold of it to write 01‘ l , A E35 . _y I\(i. old, was discussed the Icaslblllty of care and protection of Him who has promised to be 1 1 1 - b R E JAMES Kuuuuzoo GEORGE 1. FISH
- d it but d0 I103 Wfllle for lt- t rt‘ G [1 ’t ' (l in th d' ' ' - a irleiid in ever ' time of need. W ‘O 85"‘ e pnce y ’ ' - ’ ‘ ’ ' ’
l may Pellmps '99 “.3 “lg 3 ‘a 3'9 5.0”» ‘ll 3. 9 1°C.“ . 3 . . GEO. W. HILL & 00., so Wooniaiiimin S'r., DE- ,2 A d R ,, ,8 N Y
1 A younger class seemed to have taken _p0S_1- sion some legal points _were raised which 1?‘~‘0’“’f"= 'l,l‘“l_“f‘°PY °l “"359 "55"l}lll°“5 be 9"‘ vrnorr, and J. M. CHAMBERS, 103 So. WATER S'r.,  .. ._.‘.'°‘.‘._‘*.'.-.°°_.‘.’§_‘_"_..'_'_
_ session of its columns with their very _]uvi- could not be s,,t,sfac,0,.,ly answered_ The closed :0 .lie mdmily 01:] tlié deceasedprocher, bfe spread CHICAGO. Put up In 60_,b. boxes Goose). price EIGHT
, nile letters, while those young peopieof the secretary was directed to consult the Hon. :(§";:)‘ Ehf ’(;’,°;:‘;,,S,E"‘V:_fT01:’}’3*;5°’,f,ﬁ,cf‘tf°xf’y °"”"d‘ CENTS per 1b., 30-lb. boxes (of 6 5-lb. packages, TEN p  .  , V.
farms and our famllles Of l0l1l‘l’-€<?D,3l1d 0V9l'r E. G. D. Holden, of Grand Rapids, who ‘ ' 3 SAMUEL Wiﬂghh Cnsrs per lb. .  . _ “ ~.  F p
1 h8V€g9l1eT9~ll)’ l1¢?8'_l9Cl34‘«(l l0 Wflll“; ‘W911 to gave freely and fully such fraternal _adv_ice 1i,,,L_u.DER D0_,m’m,,,,_ *._. - - -—~(-.— - ~   " ‘ V _
E i‘v‘?ii°.‘l.‘2.‘§‘£‘§€.§i:Z‘..i‘$Zf.§.‘€éf..‘£e?3 ;‘§i‘.‘i.{”"ii‘?§*€‘:.‘§§°.I.‘;‘.§l‘;ig:;f3é.i?.‘§’g%‘i‘£.’:  Hi  .. MICHIGAN CENTRAL 3- 3-  e  l-
ma e. _ l. ' 0 ommi ee. -—— ,  ‘ " " » ‘  
iltand wtrile lés 50l1}:%tl:l1lJgetf}<J)il"_.‘l»gl'l€‘S)l,3()1&ll8vfv-‘€31:-1’ grunge, held on Muay illslt, ttliefiliandks otigthe BELDLN D d h d T b d l)rI1'.\l€'l‘URl~J or ’l'RAlNS FROM KALAiliAzoo. - .   
V r m ' rieu S W11 880111 rai ge were unanimous y en ere to ro. ‘ '.— ie at er resi once in ro ri ge .. _ ._ -. L, ,
F reciivel the greiiter beneﬁt from’ it. Like H01d'e,,_ The secretary was directed ioeend .,,,,,_c,,,, {$5, “WM Bun“, amember Zvfiﬁowj ll-‘lET~“’”* M“ 3’ “‘‘°- Ar. EIGHT PAGE, FORTY COLUMN PAPER,
l - - f th Dun as , y ‘ , ' ’ : ' ‘ ’ ' VVESTWARD. DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF AGRI-
the Grange, this paper In 01‘ 8 Y 8, a copy of the same to the GRANGE V ISITOR pm, 6 gm, 9 ,x,.,_ 2% _  0 _,  V  . .. . .. .—.-
d . f m , ,,, S . . . g g . , M P M CULTURE IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.
we“ as for the 0] erporllon-O 6 am e for pubhcauom Braterna“y' 11‘ has pleased our Heavenly Father to remove d v 1 ‘A’; 50 ' ' ___
of the farm‘ The” mm Is to develop 3 ‘I55’ F' PAl"EAi S9073“ from our midst by death our beloved sister, Jane M. Accommll mun £f1:ll"l::l4—- ‘ _----l"‘3—§ll
hlgller alld better manhooq among: all who Belden, aged -13 years. Though we feel that she no Local Passenger,-_   
till the B011. _ The Gljallge 15 What lts l_5nem' _ more will come to us, yet still we can go to her,where E"€‘}{lDK‘ l7XPT988.— _
bers make it, so this department will be Oleom irganne. P,,,.t,,,g Wm be no more, 10,. God hath 8,,,,,,, and lzlaaciilnc hxpress...- Many of the ablest farmers and writers of Western
. what the young people make It. Try t0 —— God hath taken away. ‘I,,,_, p,,,,,,,,,,, ___________ __ Mlchlgan "9 regul“. °°"l“l"ll'°"“ l° the W9!“ “M
** help in it by your contributions, my young [lfublic action with reference to oleomar- Worthy Master, L_5l'OlilleI‘5 and Sisters, while we - — """" "—‘»’"'," ; ~ —  ‘ l.l"”"«’{f'~'“d- Tl‘? 59”“. °l “l‘°l°",,"°‘;V '“l“1m r en-
’ friends Write something not lengthy, but garine and other poisonous substances by meet in happv re-union. let us not forget that Death l‘-A3T““‘”- lllled Filmer; tl1’;°l*3ll°“ lg liawﬁ bolng 3: 9f U‘
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3 of your nigiierihqughps. your aimsfand out; gie trviassgictliufjetts oarangeisgg 9 meeting in §;;:;;eo§;,%;;;;,°,g;>§,;f;;§§ ,:*;,;;*_,, tg,';§'1,;>,',uw}>,f,;°;,g<; W, ,,m,, _______________ __ A-.,z*,;iP- ~“- ,,‘.‘I,‘’-.,,.,;‘*., ‘:§.,‘;.,,, ‘;,,,::,‘,:.,:’,-,.,:,€ .‘;';2?j“,,;,, ;',,,°‘;f:2?,
Jects. Reading ‘W111 give 3'01} Y0111: _aCl5 31} 05 On: 3 ur ‘$3.5 1 ay ' ' ] presence; nevemmre will 51,: extend to us me hand Accommodatioh 1cuvea,__ 6 5 worth ﬁve times the subscription price of the paper.
style of expression, B-_lJd Wlllle Wllllﬂg Wlll vYHE_RA_5-  ls Gmngev 3? 3 Very early of friendship_ . “ arrives. ________ -— -- 1‘ j‘ The Grange interests and Grange news form a
ﬁx the one in our mind and give them to period in its history, took active measures t0 ,,,,,,,e,, That ,, ,, he, de, 1, 6 re ,e,,,,,,ded of Mail V 1 3 special feature, and are at all times fully represented.
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others to use, the other will make you an Warn the public agalnst the damaging ef~ the u,,ce,l;,.;,,,y of me, we need we ,,d,,,o,,,,,0,,, «we N3, ,,-’:,l;;“’,’,£‘;,;,-9-,,;, """"""""""""""" " __j,‘ 7 4, The Home Department is in the hands of a. prac-
easy, quick writer, and ﬁx the forms oftlan- fectg upolp our agriclultural interests obi; thte all do fade ‘*5 5* lea” Atlantic i~:§prees,_’ -- _-: 71(l“2;5 tiigglmponsekeeper, and is carefully and ably con.
- ‘ (if ‘n conversa ion. pro uc nown asoeomaruarme. in 2 a- R I d Tn: t d th b 'd1 b‘ d 0*.  ““ “ E '  ‘ I ’”"    _ - _
§§‘5§,§,§§,'f,,§'°§{cm‘n or use 1 tempts to supercede the legitimate products and :sllJ1l1i];l.'6’n on: rel?-ii§i§ syrmpaihyffddebesdzﬁfli 21111!‘ ,*“:,?‘,,"°"ﬁi,'}‘,‘;‘,’,‘,‘;°,;‘.,f,',‘1,,".’:§.§’,§f’§.‘;f,,‘;’,§,?, “°“l Pmcn Ill‘ market ’°P°l',l5 “'9 full“. "Id 1'10“ _1'ol18l>l°
Read cai"efully that you may write easily Of our farm industry; and Heuvenly_ 1<‘a1il:her to give unto them grace and sup- gar d y' G H.qB,tLlf]D‘Y.;RD, Gen Mliiiager, Detroit. lvl;,:l;t:’l’_'Il1l ligiclfizgg 11‘ ‘my °lll°l' P“Pel' Plll’ll9ll9d ill
and intelligently. Read now in youth and WHEREAS, buch products are 110l’..0llly port in this t eir time of so iow _ I- c  iciasfngpwoppﬂ Gui). gun A. Chicago. V _ . . t
l ' knowled e as fast as you ac- damaging to our farm Indus“-[es but mte,._ Resolved, That as a token of respect for our de- R - r 2 TERMb. $1 50 per year, trial trip (three months)
, emf) 0}’ Soul _ _ g . . . ’ . parted sister, the charter of our Grange be draped in ;::;::: ..: _:. H, : _<_"“ ‘ ‘;::':;‘T':;;:,_’  ,: f0,.25 cents (eight th,.ee_cent smmpsy
*- re it b writing and soon you will be fere seriously with our domestic and foreign - ~ .- A , . . .
. qul Y 2 , , h . t d d th h uh f I _ d mourning tor sixty days, that these resolutions be . L S & 14. S R R bubscrlptlonﬂ can commence at any time. Send
2 ellllblﬁd to 39931‘ qlllte re’-ldlly t0 l 9 111' 1'8 e an e e3 0 °ul' lpeop er all placed upon our record, and that a copy be sent to ' ' ' ' ' ' stamp for sample copies. Address,
an-uction of all Who l1_SteD- WHERFlASv Ge°- T- Al-lge li E-“Cl-o 3 1319111‘ the bereaved tamily, and one to the GRANGE VISITOR ]{ALA_“Ay,Q0 ])1v1s1()N Tum TABLE, F M CARROLL 5 CO
. Don't; try to write Just as some one else ber of this Grange, was among the first to for publication. Mas. 'l‘aAcir 'l‘via.nEa, . ‘ ‘ ' "
does in this corner, but with facts and an call public attention to this important sub- Mas. EDWARD BUCK, (Time 1-3 minutes faster than KaIamazoo.), 25 CANAL STREET, — — Giuxn Bums, Mica.
‘ object in your mind express yourselves the Joel 01' oleomargﬂ-riﬂe and other poisonous M195 M“ T,'~'RNE.**» ' o°"“° -S°U“*- N. B.—The Agricullural World and GRANGE VIB-
i beat you can. Such letters as those of substances entering largely into the domes- laommllleo " " "  ' 

_ ‘ ATS->fA&:V  Y E'l3;'“,ay Fr; ITOB both one year for 31.60.
1 it sweet }3y-jar," H Erie," of April 15th, are no economy of our households, and has _ i_l4XP|‘ol‘9--l‘:X & Mi . . 

. - - - - - - I’ULLEN.—Died at her home in Orenolra town- ' ’ - i s ' ‘Z1750 5®"“ V V ‘
ore what 15 wanted. I will write some devoted hlsume slurlne the last winter to . . . _ _ , Leﬁmnd Ruwu ---------------  M31. - 53-1 1.”
thing next number about‘ Shakespear’s calling the attention of the National Grange Slupr Bowen 00-» Mich» M33’ 3.1581. Sister HANNAH A“ “'39” ----- -- _l,?, u !   1,’:  ..  

 
writings and their beneﬁt to young readers. and Congress to this matter——so vital to our PULLEN, aged 35 years, 11. member of Fruit Grange, “‘ K"“'""”°° "

  
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1 Hoping that what I have written will industries and domestic prosperit ;—there- No. ioi. 21-.'{‘hlil'e'e give?"   :2 f  :: , Egg :: 3 1; “r r ’- . m

"3 m.eet the views of all my young f“eI.ld5iWh° fore WHEREAS, I_)eath has again entered our Grange A1,::1~.,ield:,_l_g'_e_°__" -1 5 25 rm 2 3.0 AM ________ Q 0 5*” lg’ pg -4

, will use this column as well as read it. Resolved, That tho thanks of l_l1e MaS88- and cut down in the prime of lile and full vigor of Ar, Cleveland _ tn “ I--- -- 0 '5 N E

i I remain, your UNCLE NINE. chusetts Grange be _given to Bro. Geo. I‘. An— womanhood ‘our beloved sister, thus reminding us Ar.1¥mT3«lv ---- —- _,,_,__ __ 10 PM ------ -; m a a e
gell for the energetic, persistent and success- once lnoreot the uncertainty of his and the vanity . G0,,” NOR,-,,_ 3 . o

Uncle N,-,,e_._I will “.5, and answer some ful manner in which he has presented this of all human Pursuits; therefore d .

. . 7- bject to the National and Subordinate Rcsolred, That in the death of Sister Pullen, this i  5  I’-irclway Fri
of the questions in the VISITOR. nineteen 9“ _ G e “$108” worth m mber he f an ' k. d 7 hrs M Lxpressi ,_
trees can be set out so as to have mm, rows Granges,to theAmerican Congress and to the “D3 Y e ’ ’ ‘l 1 5 “ ll‘

Cuts Six. Eight and Ten Feet,

  
1 . . di ‘ ti, 1, 1, b d ' d 1 t 0- Leiyﬁulfulo ———————————— .. ——————— —- l‘§3ll51’}fjl1?V=l57A‘§K‘: B 1; H d_ c t - 

} with ﬁve trees in each row’ in this way , greali; reading putpllic of ‘the copntry, thereby d t‘,’:’;§u’,ﬁ‘,‘,’une,:3, aegoogscﬁienfn “‘ “ 3°“ ‘me’ :5. p0i$ée°ianu_  735 7 00 l'— ,,..ie.§.i..,.r2fi"€.‘l'ai’i"i'£ir‘3ar olil :0‘ialTerIy’el:li]ill]a1?falg1::;n¢()1§  .,
, * aw“, en")? 3 Pu .10 sen ‘men , and Secllrlng Resolved, That we sincerely and most affectionately M: white 'i>Tg'e'o',,' - ' tooth makes it easy of draft, and leaves the ground ‘
 Nat19D3l_ eglslﬁtlollr, by Wllloll the great sympathize with them in this their aﬂlictive bereave- Ar. Three Rivers ' 417 light and mellow. Relieves itself of all obstructions. 1 ’

,  farming industries will be protected and the merit. Ar. sciiooicran __ K‘ i 4 45 “ ,i2 15 mi Bundled very compact 50,. ,,1,,p,,,,,,,t_ ' ‘*_

* * * *  health and domestic and social condition of Resolved, That our heartfelt sympathy be extended  §,'ﬁfg‘:‘:’°° l 7 3° 2: l  :2 ,l 1 3° " PHELPS at n1(;1z;Low w_ M_ can 2
* _,, our people maintained and elevated. to the 1aimly_ of the deceased sister, and a copy of G,,;,,,,, R,,,,,,;,, ____________ __ _, .. 7 40 .. 8. Kunmamo Duck ;
Resolved, That we commend his out- these-1‘e50ll1I1‘ollSl>o8el1t ll1el11- _ _ WA" mil‘ ~ Wit H";l']_t Fa“  7&1 t';i"‘ " “m ‘If; ~ we »~——«~—————- ~—— ——.—~—_-____'  5%’

 ’-+ * spoken words, uttered before the National R9°‘€’l"et7l»'1l-'|l1l5l;>‘1I°_l1”-l’l"el”,l"3 dT3P9<l 111 mourning ‘” ”" °‘"“‘"° “ "’ '°°’°" W‘ ,,_“,‘,"_’A",l,‘,,,,,;;.‘," “ ' V V, _ ‘-

‘ * % Grange at Washington and before the com- l°r llgrly G315; 3 eogelﬁgocluﬁlonsebo Pl‘l°'3‘lf1lP°ll of!“ snpz. Kalamazoo Division, Kalamazoo.    

l mittees of the National Congress, and pub- ":°,‘,’,ric:’,,‘:,’,1, Pl O J em §;‘,ﬁﬁ,f‘, mm‘ °’ : ; - - -_ -::; —:;~—_::..,,:_:: :.:;,—_:-_ _

' * '34‘ *' * * ﬁshed throughout the Country by the press. P ' 1u'ns's C s£o'vniz CHICAGO at GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY Kept In the °m°° °'"‘° s°°"°tary omie .;

. to the careful consideration of all local and M33: 1,'_ 13'3EM.m5w, MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE,  '

l  State Granges, and to the agricultural Committee. Corrected Tirne-Table-May 15, 1881. , , g.

‘r public throughout the country. __ . __ Ami sent out PM Paul 0" Emir! of Cash Order. 5.

l Can any Of our little readers tell us the BENJ. P. WARE. Master. BEME-N'I'.—Died at her residence in Oneida, Apr. _ _ V V ' wESf‘.W‘.Rl’:. . ,, ,, ., . , 0'-1" the ‘ml-tofu“ t'S;bo'dsl.:;_“ Gnmg" “mi ﬂu ‘

W d f th orld ? ,, my i,,,,z,,,_w, , signature of: 3 as or 5. etary.
SGVCD ‘"3 efs 0 e W p 6, 1881, sister ELLEN BEMENT, aged 44 years, a mem- Exp,” I Exp,” 1 Mixed-
Palmym’ Mum’ HATTIE COLE TOO MANY LAWYERS AND TOO MANY be’ °l G”"‘d L‘“"l3° G"*“3°' N°- 301- -_..-_.. _e. ..  Porcelain Ballot Marbles. 81' hundred, ...... .. 75

, _ FEES.—The rock that the legal profession VVnEnEAs, It has pleased our Heavenly Father, in 11?. Port Huron ................. ——' _ “ 4 l5 ff 9 30 A3! Blank Book, ledger ruled, Edi‘ Secretary to keep

,’ Uncle Nine .-—A1though papa has received are in most. danger of coming to wreck on is His inﬁnite wisdom, to remove from us by death our ,, ,, E ‘E30 ,,  ff 55 accounts with members,” . . .. . . ... . . . .. . . .. 1 Oh

. . . o 47 .1- 56 PM’ .

but three copies of the GRANGE VISITOR, I that of excessive charges. There is a con- W°’_lhY ‘ism’ an °ﬂ“~T‘°“* member °l ll“ Older» “ll " . " 1 620 “ 2 30 -* Blml‘ R°°°"l B°°.l‘§' (E3,§"'°" P‘“‘l)v------  l 00
think ting Youths’ ljnepaﬁlment very gnteu tpuai iow groygingnin the community on al;;g;§,,{,r;;"g.,=,;g*e;'3,f,g;°we deP,m we ,0” 0, our 1; mm, .................. 4,333 :; }s-r25 " pie " °§;1;;,i;B,<;*;,l;;';<,’§,*,*,e*,=;*;;,g,}m‘,’,'d°=s°ntheme 50

' ' ' ' ' A ' ‘ ' ' 1 2 1 r y 7- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
estlng an e1I1]%y1-ea mg elyqzpngf a, 1-(tips p is su Jew, ie 10 0WlDg, 111 all Ellgllsll departed sister, we shall cherish her memory, and “ Lansing ll145 “ ,1 —. Receipt Book, containing 109 Receipts from
letters. As ‘ave seen no e er mm is ay newspaper, 4 oes not exaggerate the mat- ,,,,,,u ,,,,-s,, be, genial smile and quiet p,,e,,e,,ce_ " Charlotte .12 28 rm [ Treasurer to Secretary, with stub, wellbonnd, 5o

, State, I will write one. My father, mother. ter: _“_I‘here are certain well-known ﬁrms Re,,,,,,,,g, q_~i.,,,,,,, ,, token of ,..,,,,.,c, ‘for our as. j: getglgoreek ------------- —- 3 gig 1: g ------ -—i~ ————— —— Blank Receipts go, dues, per 100, bound, _____ __ 6,,

3 sister, and brother in-law are members of of solicitors who can never be got to render ceased sister, our charter be draped in mourning for « sc,,,,,,,c,.,,,‘;, ; 30,, .. 1 ‘, A plications for Me1nbemhip,pe1- loo, ______  50

. the Order, and as I shall he fourteen next a statement; they are perpetually applying thirty days, and that a copy of these resolutions be “ Ciissopolis I 403 «-  ; ember-ship Cards, per 100,..... .... .. so

.3 September, I expect _to J0lIl soon, and _am for checks on account, and generally have resented to the family, also one sent to the Gnir.-on 3 ‘slopth B_end ; 3 3g 3 - - W_il;i_rdra_wa1 Cards, per doz.,...... 25
very anxious for that time to come. I think the faculty of asking for these at some crit- ISITOB for pul>l1oat10n- L- BARTON. Ch, ‘ol’*‘"""°------------------I 9 ,0 .. . """"""" "'"' Dmulisr In °11V°l0P°5r Per doz-r--_ ....... ., .... .. 25
if Addie May French could hear Col. ice] time in the procedure, when they know M31 14- BAMON» W‘ ' ' M-—— BY-Lo“ of lllo 3'69-loGm1£°» 8111816 copies 10¢.

Franklin’ Master of the Vertpont State that the ]i[.igant, cgnnot help paying’ in . MR5: H-  ___HW__i__“ _ 7  __EAfl:1'WARD- ’ ‘ BP3_fa‘;-:z-!';(;I-l;J-d---- ---- ---- ~--- -- - ---- nu .. 35
Grange, speak of the Order and its beneﬁts, order that his case may go on. Other so1ic- ' : D-y Ptliurn M,,,,.,_ ,, 3&1 d E'h ,, ".'t'h‘ " --: Sr -- -- - --   0 ‘
I h h . d I t . . h th . . . . f _._. .12,-,,m,.._g,p.,,,.,_ N H a c oes, wi music, ingle copy 15 cts. .. _

l ' She W0“ ‘l 9°01‘ ‘’ “"39 °l' ml.“ - ‘Yen W0“ Plmls . 9 "“l“l9'“"°”°‘i‘5 ° any 0'19 JOSEPH —-At It ti f ' G ii ld I No. 1. I No.3. °- r doz. ...............  ....... .,  *.

. . - te d t d d d . . mee ng 0 Quincy range e __ _ ___ W , , ,,V___._, _,____|_ ,, _ P6 3 ...... .. 1 80

_~ to school this win r, an s u ie rea mg, who_may wish for a detailed bill of costs by M8 7 188, the fonowing resolutions were ado my L,,_c,,,c,,g,, ____ 3 15 “i , Rituals, single copy,,..,,. __    ‘_ 40 .

1' spelling, algebra, geography, first and making it out toan extent vastly in excess 3’ ' ' It 1 d D_ _ M P ' u v.ip..mi.,., _ [1027 --i 1 4. per 50,” ______________  ___________ ._ 2 40

- second classes in grammar, and geography of the round sum originally demanded.” W331‘-“ll l‘?3.Pe“° °“,r Wino aster above ‘j south Bend- .1213 {gr Blank “Articles of Association" tor the Inca

- if hhldi 1bBth-W * 1 1051 - -

. d  of Vermont besides wﬂtin It jg notorious that the char es ars alto- to C31 ‘Om e‘_“t 3 9 ° actwe a 0? 7° 91 m‘ ,, c"‘”°p° ls """"""""" “l ,, ‘ ration of Subordinate Grange], with Co of
an y ’- - - g - g - . Joseph one of the earnest and most faithful members 3¢ll°°l°l’o“ l l 55 py

, every Wednesday, and with the writing, gether out of proportion to the time given, of Quﬁm Gm] 6, therefore «- Vicksburg __________________ __,l 210 « Cl_1ﬂrl61‘r8-ll_o0mPlo*Br ---------------------- .. io
rhetorical exercises alternating with the work done or the consideration receiv- Re,,,;,,e‘l,}’ Thatg ,§,,h,-,9 we bow with reverence to " Battle Creek 1 325 l: Noticeto Delinquent Members, per 100, ______ __ 40 _

1 “spelling down.” I am going to help do ed, and all kinds of vexatious obstacles are um, decree, we déepiv mourn, with ,,o,,.ow,,,g hearts. 2‘, °l'“l.°"° -—~ 1 gig f, Diolzlaggn of Purposes. per dozw 5°-: Per ,
our housework this spring. . We have al- thrown in the way of any who seek to effect our own great loss. 'By his sudden death we are re- :: 6 gr 3 A,,,e,.,c,,,, ﬁ,;,',,',;,'1',;f'};,;,I,},;,,;;,,;;,;,i);'f‘;;,'  5*‘? _ _ 
ways had a very large family, but now areform in this respect. '1he fact is, that minded of the uncertainty of life, and yve should “ gig _, i. .. .. .. H -(-1.‘-o._ <.

.‘ there is only papa, mamlllﬂr Charles, and I. the ranks of the legal profession are over- heed the 8-flmonlllolh “ 39 Yeloloo Food? l _ .. ,, 33 .. rocco Tuck, .......................... ..

‘ I have a cabinet and speclmellﬁ from nearly crowded, and are being added to year by * geogglgig Tl“‘l;)e"!_‘1’ hgaglfg t ‘;g:;1PE';l:Y d 1}: lloffolly « _ , 9 .10 :4‘ Address of J. J. Woodman before the Nation- _
allpartq of the Union except Ml°l"88l1- .,I year to an extent which the public Interests f,‘ find we °,;‘e‘;m§“f,f,, ,‘§ej,§e,,,yPF,,',‘,e, jf,;,¥';; P0" Hm" ———————————————— -- 95° 31 Gmize-Per dozen ................... .. 20 ‘

' would Iiketo exchange some Vermont speci- oy no means require. Yet the exclusiveness ufgm gum and support in mi, their ,,,,,e of ,,,,,.,,,,,_ Aii trains run by Chicago time. All train! daily except f)fl‘l":‘°f"lLTl‘°9- Kd-}l13°f_°l'oF-Per dozen .... .. 10 I
_ mens forsome from Michigan. I havesome that obtains with regard to methods of pro-. Resolved’ Th, ,,,e,,,, ,e,,o,,,t,O,,,, be entered upon snnigiy. B P S x cm “H Igoo 0 8W San u lugs, .....  ....... .. 40
’ lava. from Australia, which came, I think, cedure, and the stringent rules imposed -the minute, of this Grange, and 3 copy be presented FA;;néic§:;mg"_ - G-enen,é:_pé-mmdem Address. J. 1'. COBB,
nu-they than any of my other specimens. upon all members of_ the craft, prevent that to the bereaved family; also that they be published ,0, ,,,,o,,,,_,,,,,, M ,0 “,0, _,,,,,y ,0 ,,_ ,._ Km, ,0“; Sim’? Mica. sun GRAIGI,
I also have some fine amethysts from Col- wholesome competition which exists in all in the GRANGE VISITOR. ' ‘

Agent, Schoolcraﬂ, Mich. _ SCHOOLCBAFT, MICE,
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Ex-Prisoners of War and Veteran Soldiers:

The Michigan Ex Prisoners of War Asso-
ciation will hold a re-union at Detroit June
21, 22 and 23, 1881. A cordial invitation is
hereby extended to all veterans to meet with
them. The program includes a parade,
speeches by distinguished speakers (Music
Hall, with a seating capacity of 3,500, has
been engaged for the three days), boat rides
on the river, and a grand banquet by the
ladies of Detroit.

The rate of two cents per mile has been
secured on all railroads centering in Detroit,
and one-half fare on the Cleveland and/De-
troit steamers. Visitors will pay full fare
one way and be returned for one-third fare
on presentation of a certiﬁcate issued by
the Secretary, which all should apply for.

Comrades who intend to participate with
us will please inform the Secretary at once
that we may know how many to provide
for. Reduced rates have been secured at
the hotels ranging from $1.00 to $2.00 per
day. President Garﬁeld ; Secretary of War,
Robert Lincoln ; Generals Sherman, Sheri-
dan, Hancock and other distinguished com-
rades have been invited.

E. O. Honors, Secretary,
Detroit, Mich.

IF ever we have a conﬂict between capital
and labor in this country, it will be because
of the injustice done the masses by corpor-
ate monopolies. It therefore behooves all
classes of citizens to sustain the efforts made
by reasonable and intelligent citizens to
limit the power of men who, to use the
words of a committee of the United States
Senate, “recognize no principle of action
but personal and corporate aggrandizement.”
—N. Y. Daily Graphic.

To the Patrons of Michigan.

A large and growing trade is now being
carried on at our co-operative store in Alle-
gan, and under the management of Bro. A.
Stegeman, it is rapidly gaining a reputation
not excelled, if equalled, by any other store
in the State; and for this success we are
greatly indebted to him for his zeal and un-
tiring energy in managing its business trans-
actions. Therefore to offer these facilities to
all Patrons wishing to purchase through our
agency, the executive committee of the co-
operative association have made such ar-
rangements that our agent will ﬂll orders
for goods from all parts of the State.

For further in formation,address A. Simon-
MAN, Allegan, Mich.

J. S. BiD\vEI.L,
Sec. of C. A. of P. of H.

MUNSON’S

HAY Ellllllﬂll AND CARRIED,

(Patented in March, 1880,)

We present to the farmers of Michigan this great
improvement over any device for elevating and mov-
ing hay from wagons to mows in barns. This device
commends itself ,-——and we are willing to put up a
track on trial iu the barn of any responsible farmer,
and remove the same if not entirely satisfactory.
PRICE, $5.00 for Carriers, and 25 cents per running
foot of double track. Address
RICE & CRANDALL,
Dowagiac, Mich.

Sour}: BEND, Ind., April 21, 1381

We, the undersigned, are using the Munson Hay
Elevator and Carrier, and we ﬁnd in it all that is
claimed for it. We think it the most perfect of any
we have ever seen. A boy of twelve or fourteen
years of age can handle any part of it with ease.

Respectfully Yours, JACOB W. WAGNER.

Paras Znmna.
J orm C. ULLEBY.
G. S. DUNNAHO0.
J ACOB WAGNER.
Goprssr BEETLE.
En. Iavm.

THE BUSINESS COLLEGE
AT KALAMAZ09. MIGIL

IS THE BEST PLACE FOR

YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN

TO GET A T}.-IOROUGH
BUSINESS EDUCATION.

|§’Send for College Record, giving full partic-
ulars.

junelt3

  
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President.

GEORGE W. HILL,

Successor to GEO. W. HILL dz CO.

  commission Merchant, a

Dealer in Grain and Produce,

No. 80 Woodbridge Street West.
DETROIT, MICH.

What EVERY FAMILY need,
and Every Grange should have,
and I can furnish it.

An Accurate Beam Scale,

that will weigh from ONE-EIGHTH OUNCE TO
TWENTY-FIVE POUNDS. It is a GEM,

For the small sum of $2.55.
VEGETABLE, FLOWER and FIELD

SEEDS.

Field Peas, Timothy, Clover,
Hungarian, Millet. j

SEND FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES.

T. J. Snonrumrn, Secretary of Mt. Clement
Grange, is my travelling agent; give him your
orders whenhecalls.
apraltlb.

 
.

TEE GRANGE VESETOR.

HUSBANDS ——°F sIcKLY—— WIVES I
MOTHERS” OF DROOPING DAUGHTERS l

BIIOULD KNOW OF
DR. R. PENGELLY’S “WOMAN’S FRIEND," IMPROVED!
It is a. SOVEREIGN REMEDY rol-

Those Complaints (they need no naming) peculiar to VVOMEN. YOUNG or OLD, NOT A CUR E-
ALL, Claiming to annihilate Jaundice, Diabetes, Bright's Disease, Gravel, and everything else which
aﬂlicts MEN EVEN MORE THAN WOMEN.

It works in ONE LINE and in that line it excels. The tender, Nervous Girl, the anxious, eapectant
Mother, the overburdened Housewife, the Matron, passing the critical change, are all guarded, soothed and
sustained by its Gentle Inﬂuence. It is the prescription of an experienced Physician, perfected during a
life-long practice, and its nine years of public record, in 30 different States, have proved it rightly named --
A FRIEND INDEED TO WOMAN. The good words of those who use it are its best advertisement.
An 8-ounce ($1.00) bottle, or 9. 20-ounce ($2.00) bottle sent on receipt of price, express prepaid, also
references and testimonials, on application to

‘R. PIENGELLY 8:. CO..
KALAMAZOO. MICH. (FOBMERLY or PLAINWELL.)
Sold by Drugglsts ‘generally anal Lady Agents. Swift &« Dmlds, and Fm-rand, Williams
db Co., Detroit. Vunsuhaack, Stevenson &. Co., Chicago.

ALABASTINE.

A SUPERIOR SUBSTITUTE FOR KALSOMINE, WALL PAPER. dﬁc.

BETTER, CHEAPER, AND MORE EASILY APPLIED.

It is the only preparation based on the proper principles to constitute a durable ﬁnish, and is entirely
different from all other preparations applied with the brush.

Every additional cost of ALABASTINE, applied from time to time, adds to the strength of the wall. as
they all cement together, forming one solid mass that will not scale from a hard surface, but becomes harder
with age, obviating the necessity of scraping and washing walls. This alone places ALABASTINE far ahead
of all other preparations for the purpose ; while it is also very easily applied by any person, by following a.
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it requires but one-half the number of pounds that it does of kalsomine to cover the same surface; and

saves time and waste by being ready for use by adding hot water.

Fifty cents’ worth of ALABASTINE will cover 50 square yards of average wall with two coats; and one
coat will produce better work than can be done with one coat of any other preparation, on the same sur-
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does not spot it. Manufactured only by the

M. B. CHURCH, Manager.

ALABASTINE (.70.,

Grand Rapids. Mich.

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llllnnno llllll till llnolag Wlllll,

Manufacturers of

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AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
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PLEASE CALL AND SEE OUR STOCK AT

52 and 54 NORTH BURDICK STREET,

KALAMAZOO, MICH.

Farmers and Patrons
of the “ VISITOR,”

ARE you in need of a

‘WIND MILL ?

If so, read the following:

THE UNDERSIGNED
WIND JIZILL 00..

MANUFACTURERS OF

WOLGOTT’S

PATENT
“ " SELF- REG ULATING

DDDDAL-WHEEL wmn Mlll,

ARE now prepared to furnish Mills on short notice.
We employ but few Agents: we prefer to dea di-
rectly with the farmers. Remember, the Wind ill
we oﬂer you is not a new and untried Mill, for it
has been built in Albion for the past nine years, and
has stood the test. W's can furnish any number of
Testimonials, from ten or more diﬂerent States. We
have made many new and useful improvements from
year to year, until we now have as good‘ a Mill as
can be found in the market—we might, like others,
say the best, but we leave it to you to judge for your-
self. All we ask is that you give our Mill a trial. It
costs you nothing to make the trial; if not satis-
factory, we take it away at our own expense.

Derricks, Pumps, Tanks and Piping furnished
with or without Mills.

You can save time and money by writing at
once for Circulars and Price List to

UNION IVIND MILL 6;; MAI\"F’G 00,
Albion, Mich.

 
GGS FOR HATCHIVG. From all the varieties
of poultry, Brahmas, Cochins, Hamburgs, Polish
Leghorns, Plymouth Rocks, Roan Cauga. Pekin and
Alesbury Ducks. Eggs carefully packed from our
prize birds at 81.50 per 13. Four or more settings at
$1.00 per 13. Our Plymouth Rocks and Pekins have
never been beat. A few ﬁrst-class fowls and Berk-
shire pigs to spare. Smith &'. Bro..
8pl'1-5.2m Sronv Bacon, N. Y.

PAINT for PATEONS.

‘THE BEST AND OEEAPEST.
Immense Reduction in Prices from April 15, 1881.
FREIGHT FREE.

Duarlelman’s lleady—Mxed Paints.

Used by Patrons all Over the Land.
QUARTERMA.N’S GUIDE TO PAINTING

WITH SAMPLE COLORS SENT FREE TO ANY PATRON.

§"Send for our Prices before purchasing else-
where. Address

E. A. QUARTERMAN,
159 South Street, New York City.

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BEES FOR SALE.
CHOICE ITALIANS.

In Movable comb Hives.

Write for Prices. 0. B. RANNEY.
Kalamazoo, Mich.

PATRONS, TRY JIIE,
And Judge for Yourselves.

The  nun

Stands without a rival in assorting grain and seeds.
Separates and grades grain and seeds of all kinds;
cleans perfectly: has six fans, is simple, runs easily,
and works rapidly. Agitator in hopper, with lever
and ratchet for regulating feed. The sieves are well
made of coppered and annealed wire cloth; other
parts of the most durable material. The Eureka is
the only mill in America that makes

Four complete Separations on two
Sleves at one operation.

It separates cockle, chess, mustard, redroot, dock,
or any other small seed from your wheat; making
one grade of seed wheat, taking ‘the shrunk and
cracked wheat out and cleaning it for market at the
some time, besides putting the small foul seeds that
may be in the grain perfectly clean by itself, also the
cockle and chess by itself. The Eureka does all of
this in running the grain once through the mill. One
dollar in cash will be given for every cockle or chess
that can be found in the seed wheat after being once
run through the mill when properly adjusted. This
mill was awarded the highest medal at Philadelphia
in 1876, also at the last two State fairs of Michigan.

Manufactured by
HENRY GORTRITE,
For terms to Patrons address Lansing, Mich.

T. J. SHOEMAKER,
Sec’y 637, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

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WAGON SCALES.

ARE SOLD FOR $60.

All Iron and Steel. Sold on trial—freight paid by
us—no money asked till tested and found satisfac-
tory. All sizes manufactured.

JONES OF BINGHAMPTON,
Binghampton. N. Y.
Send for Circulars and further particulars.

PAW PAW, Mich., May 18th, 1878.
Jonas or BINGHAMTON:

My Scales give entire satisfaction. I have subject-
ed it to the most severe tests and ﬁnd it not only
correct in weighing large or small amounts, but
perfectly reliable.

Yours, Fraternally,
J. J. WOODMAN.
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HEADDUARTERS FOR LAND PLASTER

DAY :9 TAYLOR.

Grandvllle, Mich.,

Are prepared to furnish LAND PLASTER, fresh
ground, at contract prices, made with the Executive
Committee of the State Grange.
A large stock on hand of pure, ﬁnely-ground
LAND PLASTER.
Send us your Orders direct.
jan1—ly

[Signed]

. DAY & TAYLOR

Plymouth Rooks

-—AND -—

Partridge Cochins!

My Pl mouth Rocks
are from eefer’s noted
strain ; my Partridge
Cochins are from
Pierce’s prize - win-
_ vning strain. Weaned
Chickens for sale
in early Summer.
Eggs in season.
Send for Circular to

rank B. ilde, Uonerville, Mich.

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PRICE LIST or

HORSE NETS.

Nets made of l6—thread twine, full net, body,
neck and ear tips, by the dozen, each $1.10. Sixty
days time. Ten per cent. oﬁ for cash.

Body Nets, reaching to the hames, by the dozen,
each 75 cents. -

Nets mads of 20-thread twins, 3. small advance

on above prices.
~ JOSEPH SHAW.
Charlotte, Mich.
Orders under Seal of Grange promptly attended to.

   
JUNE 1, 1881.

E. 3.. TIIOMFEOIV9

GENERAL AGENT FOR CENTRAL MICHIGAN.

 
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LAJVSING, JIIICJ-IIGAN.
SPECIAL TERMS TO PATRONS.

IONIA. CLINTON, SHIAWASSEE. BARRY, EATON, INGHAM, LININGSTON, CALHOUN,
JACKSON AND WASHTENAVV COUNTIES. May 1-1 yr.

EVERY FARMER IN THE COUNTRY SHOULD EXAMI.\’E THE

New Combined Spring Tooth Sulky Harrow

C.ULTIVATOR AND SEEDEIR.

l\Ianu fnctur-ed by

THE SCHAU & SCHUSTER SULKY
HARROW AND SEEDER COMPANY.

Knlnrnnzoo, -

M Ichlgnn.

As :1 combined machine, it stands un-
rivalled in excellence, doing the work 0.
_ a Harrow and Seed Sewer most thorough-
ly and satisfactorily. It has taken high
- rank at once as ONE OF THE VERY’
BEST ll\IPLl<]MEN'l‘S FOR THE USES
, — — DESIGNED EVER INVENTED. Sows
all kinds of grain and grass seeds. The llarrow does not trail, and is of lighter
draft than any other Harrow in the market. It received first premium and diplomas
Wherever shown in 1880.

   
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Eureka Automatic Wind Engine,

WARRANTED TO CONTROL ITSELF IN ANY WIND.
‘Pl-IOAA P9ZlIlAIO 9119: 0’-l “MOVIE HHMOJ .I.SE[c'[VlElHO

It is the Only Mill on record whose Working Parts are Entirely Closed.
Will warrant it Never to Freeze Up or to be Hindered in any way by Storm or Ice.

FIIHIPS, "1"-».aﬁu.IN’I'3C§. (£36.,

MANUFACTURED BY -

SLAIITE 827 'VV'OOID.A.IE-?JID,

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SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW!
THE CHAMPION BARBED WIRE

Is Easily Seen, Most Effective, and Least Dangerous to Stock of any Barbed Wire known.

 
€3I‘I.I3EE~'t. ‘§?(3'III=I.

Barbed Wire, Dry Goods, Groceries, Sewing Machines, Scales,-
Seeds, Hardware, Watches, Clocks, Plated Ware, &.c., &c.

In Fact, Everything You Want, of Your State Business Agency.
‘W-'a©WA$ MAWON,

Commission Merchant, 159 South VV'ate:r- Street, Chicago, Ill.
§PATRONS STATE BUSINESS AGENT. N. B.—-All goods bought on your order at WHOLE-

SALE RATES on day of purchase. Terms strictly cash.

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KALAMAZOO, M ICH.